WW2 Enigma codebreakers to be honoured by government

THOUSANDS of surviving codebreakers who cracked the German Enigma codes during the Second World War are in line to receive service medals.

WW2 Enigma codebreakers to be honoured by government

The British Government’s secret communications centre, the GCHQ, is said to be finalising plans to formally honour up to 5,000 codebreakers and other members of staff who worked in secret conditions at Bletchley Park and its outlying stations around the world.

Bletchley Park, also known as Station X, was the UK’s main decryption establishment during the Second World War.

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