Tributes have been paid to Second World War Bletchley Park codebreaker Ruth Bourne, who has died at the age of 98. Ms Bourne, from High Barnet in north London, worked as a Bombe machine operator and ...

One of the Second World War’s most fascinating stories is that of the Allied codebreakers, who deciphered a vast number of German secret messages by decrypting their ingenious ciphering machine, the ...

A collection of rare scientific papers written by mathematician, computer scientist and Second World War codebreaker Alan Turing has sold for a record £465,400 (€544,400) at auction in Lichfield, UK.

The Enigma code was a fiendish cipher that took Alan Turing and his fellow codebreakers a herculean effort to crack. Yet experts say it would have crumbled in the face of modern computing. While ...

In U-571, American sailors capture a German Enigma machine during World War II—but that never happened. The real Enigma codebreakers were British, and their heroic success came months before America ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. During WWII, an elite team of British codebreakers, including Alan Turing and Gordon Welchman, were tasked with cracking one of the most complex ...

Julia Parsons, of Forest Hills, was a 20-year-old college student at Carnegie Tech in December 1941."The news of Pearl Harbor came over the radio, and I was so shocked. I had no idea where Pearl ...