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Our very own Alan Turing

The little known story of our own code-breaking star, Eric Nave, who did as much as anyone to break the Japanese naval codes

7 February 2015

9:00 AM

7 February 2015

9:00 AM

The brilliant Oscar-nominated film about Alan Turing, The Imitation Game, has introduced a wide public to the crucial role of signals intelligence, and particularly code-breaking, in the Allied victory over the Nazi threat to civilisation. Alan Turing was, until relatively recently, a great unsung hero of that war, a man who made a unique contribution to victory and deserved a much better end.

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