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The Influence of ULTRA in the Second World War

A transcript of a 1993 speech by Sir Harry Hinsley, a former codebreaker. He talks about how the British broke German codes at Bletchley Park, kept it…

The US 6812 Bombe Report 1944

A 1945 manual by the US Army explaining how they broke German codes. It explains how the Enigma machine worked and gives instructions for using the…

Turing's Treatise on the Enigma - A Photographic Copy of a Paper Prepared in GCCS, written ca. 1939-1942

A declassified internal manual written by Alan Turing and other codebreakers at Bletchley Park during the war. It gives a detailed breakdown of how…

U.S.S. Nevada bombards Nazi positions blocking the forward surge of Allied troops in Normandy in June 1944

"478.Photograph. 'File No: 50420 June 9, 1944 U. S. Battlewagon Aids Land Forces Flame and smoke gush from the muzzles of 14-inch guns as the U.S.S.…

Voilà comment ils Mentent!

This poster is an anti-British propaganda poster issued in occupied France around 1941. The poster uses a montage of black-and-white photographs and…

WAVE Demonstrating Bombe

A historical photograph showing a U.S. Navy WAVE demonstrating the operation of a Bombe machine, the electromechanical device used to decrypt Enigma…

We beat ’em before..We’ll beat ’em again! (Propaganda poster by an unknown artist.)

Propaganda poster created between 1939 and 1945. The poster uses the slogan “We beat ’em before..We’ll beat ’em again!” and presents an anti-German…

We French Workers Warn You: Defeat Means Slavery, Starvation, Death

World War II propaganda poster by Ben Shahn showing three French laborers with their hands raised. The poster warns American workers that defeat by…

We Won!

This 1945 Soviet propaganda poster by V. Ivanov shows a soldier holding two large red flags and celebrating victory. The poster uses strong patriotic…