Eh, I'm not at all surprised, considering that he created and entire language to give characters in his books more depth.
Oh, and this simply does not ring true to me.
captains communicated their positions to their corresponding packmates on a religious frequency - that gave them the coordination that made their
attacks so devastating. But the USN twigged to it and, even though they couldn't understand the encoded communications, they listened in and
triangulated the sources, thus rendering a submarine's greatest asset moot.
Later on, the breaking of Enigma did help out the war effort, but the Navy was winning on their front long before that. In fact, it was the USN, again, that
was the greatest contributor to the effort to break Enigma in taking a German U-Boat. Intact. Codebooks and all. And killing only two of the crew.
I'm not certain if Mr. Turing had much to do with that, but if he did, I'm certain that the codebooks recovered by the USN was the primer he needed.
Oh, and this simply does not ring true to me.
Quote: Its staff - which included Alan Turing, the gay codebreaker - would later decipher the 'impenetrable' Enigma machines.Uhm... Sorry, the USN was happily intercepting U-Boats and busting up their infamous Wulf packs long before Enigma was broken. Thing is, U-Boat
This saved Britain from German conquest by allowing the Navy to intercept and destroy Hitler's U-Boats.
captains communicated their positions to their corresponding packmates on a religious frequency - that gave them the coordination that made their
attacks so devastating. But the USN twigged to it and, even though they couldn't understand the encoded communications, they listened in and
triangulated the sources, thus rendering a submarine's greatest asset moot.
Later on, the breaking of Enigma did help out the war effort, but the Navy was winning on their front long before that. In fact, it was the USN, again, that
was the greatest contributor to the effort to break Enigma in taking a German U-Boat. Intact. Codebooks and all. And killing only two of the crew.
I'm not certain if Mr. Turing had much to do with that, but if he did, I'm certain that the codebooks recovered by the USN was the primer he needed.