WWII Bombe operator Ruth Bourne: I’d never heard of Enigma until long after the war

Interview El Reg had the honour of speaking with a war hero last Friday when the UK’s National Museum of Computing fired up its replica Enigma code-breaker to decrypt messages sent from Poland. Ruth Bourne was among hundreds of Wrens who worked on the front line of code-breaking on 200 or so Bombe machines1 at sites in and around Bletchley Park.

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