Aiding in Hitler's downfall

Woman Bletchley Park Code Breaker honoured for aiding Hitler’s downfall

 
Ursula Frost remembers the day Winston Churchill arrived at Bletchley Park to tell her and other Enigma codebreakers they had helped end World War II.
”Churchill came down and told us we’d ended the war by two years. We were very pleased to hear that,” the 95-year-old Aucklander says.
”He came down and saw us twice which we always thought was great, rather. He didn’t have all that time to do those sort of things.”
Frost will be thanked for her services when Defence Minister Jonathan Coleman presents her with a special badge from the United Kingdom next Friday at Auckland rest home.
But why she is receiving the badge after 67 years is also an enigma, she said.
Frost worked for section M18 during the war, cracking German army and air force codes under computer maverick Alan Turing.
He was a bright-minded, ”very nice chap”, she says, but they never spoke of his codebreaking secrets.

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10 Little Known Facts about D-Day

Military scholars have studied D-Day for the past six decades, but even WWII buffs might not know some of these little-known facts about the infamous beach landing:

1. The invasion location was cloaked in secrecy and rumors. Allied leaders were constantly trying to throw off the Germans about the location and time of the planned inv

asion. Not even the soldiers knew the exact date, time, and location of the attack until the last minute. All training maps for troops had false names to keep the secret intact.

2. The main reason for the secrecy was that the Germans had 55 divisions stationed in France, and the Allies could only bring in about eight divisions to attack on D-Day.

Band of Brothers 3?

HBO Considering Third BAND OF BROTHERS TV Series

According to The Playlist, Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks are presumed to be involved as producers again in the third series

If your heart has mended since having seen the WWII HBO miniseries Band of Brothers, which first aired in 2001, and you have gotten through the pain and triumph of The Pacific, the follow-up series that took place in the Asia theater of war (and aired in 2010) then prepare for a new soul-crushing possibility: a third series that would follow the aerial battles in the Pacific.

The original installment seemed to act as a springboard for a huge number of actors who have continued rising in their fame (such as Michael Fassbender, Ron Livingston, Jamie Bamber, Tom Hardy, Colin Hanks and Simon Pegg), including Damian Lewis, whose heroic Major Dick Winters is miles away from his current role as the compromised former patriot Nicholas Brody on Showtime’s Homeland (Dick Winters would never be turned against America!)  For more on the upcoming project, hit the jump.

band-of-brothers-posterAccording to The Playlist, Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks are presumed to be involved as producers again in the third series, but little else is known about the possible revival of the WWII historical drama, though network executives Michael Lombardo and Richard Plepler seem keen on the idea given the success of the first two series.
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Hitler's Cabriolet still here

Is this Hitler’s Mercedes? Car dealer’s shock at discovering vintage car he bought from eBay was built for Nazi officers

on July 11, 2012 at 09:08

When a New Jersey auto dealer called up Mercedes to order parts for a vintage car he was repairing, they asked for the vehicle’s serial number.
Zenop Tuncer was shocked to hear the company reply: ‘That’s Hitler’s car.’The 1942 Mercedes 320 Cabriolet D was part of a fleet built for senior officers of the Third Reich during the Second World War. While the model which ended up being repaired in Edgewater, New Jersey was probably not flashy enough to be driven by the Führer himself, it is likely to have belonged to one of his generals.

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