Bletchley worker Albert Gorman is among those whose untold stories are seeing the light of day.
A digital history project run by the University of Oxford is preserving untold stories and family heirlooms from World War Two A window has been opened into the lives of Allied personnel engaged in top secret work against the Nazis during World War Two. The photographs and stories include milestones in the off-duty life of a worker at Bletchley Park and a photograph of a Royal Navy officer involved in capturing a German Enigma machine from a stricken U-boat.
The crew was told never to speak of what became known as Operation Primrose, and the contributor’s grandfather spoke little about the war and even less about the day in 1941. The 2000 film U-571 was loosely based on the capture of U-110, which would come to be regarded as one of the most important events in the six-year Battle of the Atlantic.
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