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"The Bletchley Girls" from 'The Lady'


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..by 1941 the cerebral origins of Bletchley Park had given way to an industrial scale code-breaking factory. A clutch of ‘professor-type’ cryptanalysts increasingly relied on a predominantly young female workforce to ensure the Allies stayed one step ahead of the enemy. At the peak of the war, women outnumbered men at Bletchley by three to one.

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