Alan Turing - War Time
Across
- 3. A statistical method for improving the efficiency of breaking Enigma
- 6. Prime Minister during World War Two
- 9. Formed in 1919 to merge the intelligence agencies of the Army and Navy for peacetime operations and played a key role in codebreaking at Bletchey Park(5 words)
- 11. One of the earliest stored-program computers (2 words plus number)
- 14. A joking term used at Bletchley Park to describe Alan's unique approach to problem-solving
- 16. Linguist and intelligence analyst who worked in Hut 8
- 18. A chess champion and the original head of Hut 8 before Alan took over (2 words)
- 19. The name of the Operation of the D-Day landings that were aided by the intelligence gathered through Enigma decryption (2 words)
Down
- 1. Author of "Alan Turing: The Enigma" which provides a deep look into Alan's life and contributions, especially during the war
- 2. The section at Bletchley Park where Turing and his team focused on breaking Enigma(number included)
- 4. A fellow codebreaker and was engaged to Alan for a period of time
- 5. The world's first programmable digital electronic computer, designed to assist in codebreaking efforts
- 7. An electro-mechanical Bletchleysed by British cryptologists to help decipher Enigma
- 8. The site where Turing and his team worked on breaking Enigma (2 words)
- 10. The top-secret intelligence derived from the decrypted Engima messages
- 12. Alan's groundbreaking work in breaking the German Enigma code contributed significantly to the Allied victory
- 13. The Lorenz cipher used by the German High Command
- 15. A mathematician who was on Alan's team at Hut 8
- 17. The German encryption machine
- 20. The Successor of the Manchester Mark 1 (acronym)