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Events on Monday 4 September 1939 1
1939Reports to Bletchley ParkThe day after the declarationTuring arrives at Bletchley Park the day after Britain declares war. He is put on naval Enigma, generally reckoned the hardest of the German ciphers and the one others have abandoned as unbreakable. Within months he has redesigned the Polish bomba into something fundamentally different.