Special Operations and Intelligence

ATS Secrets

One of my postings was to Beaumanor Hall near Leicester. The hut which I worked in is still standing in the...

Spies in Stanground

The other was in a derelict farm, and had broken his leg on landing. At Popples Farm near Peterborough a...

Jewish Decoder in Whitehall [Mrs.Bratter]

Jewish Decoder in Whitehall. I had been evacuated from East London, I was advised to go into the women...

Working with Churchill

During the war I worked in the War office for Winston Churchill. I was recruited because I was fluent in...

German Spies in Bedford

I remember that my father was at the railway sation in Bedford one day, when he noticed a couple of nuns on...

Ministry of Labour

I started in Letchworth, and was sent to the training centre, but they changed their minds and sent me to...

The Secret Tunnels of South Heighton

The abandoned and unrenowned tunnels of HMS FORWARD, Royal Naval Headquarters, NEWHAVEN, East Sussex. It...

A Day in the Life of a Secret Agent

Andy was then shipped out to Cairo where he had his first chance to test his skills learned in the weeks of...

MY SECRET WAR

There are additional copies of the film at the Bletchley Park Trust, the Scottish National Museum, the...

Wartime Code Breaking

Oliver and Sheila Lawn both worked at Bletchley Park in Buckinghamshire, the very secret wartime code...

National Pigeon Service

Many of the stories remain untold because of the 'Classified'regulations that still apply for...

National Pigeon Service

Now the birds that I supplied to the Army and RAF for service were mostly squeakers, so the problem of them...

Secret Station 17 - Special Operations - Sabotage

Within a few months of starting work advising saboteurs my father was made Commanding Officer of the secret...

Ultra Secret Service

Station X was, of course, Bletchley Park, where the German Enigma codes were broken... During this period,...

Howarth Williams

Fortunately, I was soon recalled to Porton, where I worked in Dr Howarth Williams' lab analysing...

Gerald Openshaw

I had to tell everyone that I was in the army, a corporal in the Royal Signals, but I was actually...

Historical anomaly

I have just read the story concerning a "Dr" Howarth Williams of Porton, and nerve gas, and wish to...

Working at Bletchley Park

Once the Enigma Code was broken, it made it possible to break into the actual transmissions of the German...

Operation Josephine - a successful SOE operation carried out under Major Clarke

The saboteurs were dropped in southern France and after quite a long period of reconnoitering they attacked...

Enigma

Britain was able to decrypt the German 4 Cylinder Enigma Machines code. We were able to pass on the decoded...

Drama Productions at Bletchley Park

During my time at Bletchley Park, drama, as well as other artistic activities, flourished... A close...

Memoirs of a Wartime Teenager

Having worked with the 'Special Operations'NPS section of the Royal Corps Signals and the RAF...

Memoirs of a Wartime Teenager

Memoirs of a Wartime Teenager

Winston had promised to'Fight on the beaches and in the streets and never surrender'and was now...

WORKING WITH CHURCHILL

During the war I worked in the War office for Winston Churchill. I was recruited because I was fluent in...

A Classical Scholar at Bletchley Park

Being a classical scholar I was employed as a cryptographer at Bletchley Park....