Artwork

Content provided by Bletchley Park. All podcast content including episodes, graphics, and podcast descriptions are uploaded and provided directly by Bletchley Park or their podcast platform partner. If you believe someone is using your copyrighted work without your permission, you can follow the process outlined here https://player.fm/legal.
Player FM - Podcast App
Go offline with the Player FM app!

E158 - We Shall Fight to the Last Shell

1:28:28
 
Share
 

Manage episode 390859545 series 9395
Content provided by Bletchley Park. All podcast content including episodes, graphics, and podcast descriptions are uploaded and provided directly by Bletchley Park or their podcast platform partner. If you believe someone is using your copyrighted work without your permission, you can follow the process outlined here https://player.fm/legal.
December 2023
Eighty years ago this month Britain was marking its fifth Christmas of the war with still no end in sight. D-Day still lay in the future and the campaigns in Italy and on the Eastern Front ground on.
However on Boxing Day 1943 the Royal Navy achieved a significant, if grim success over the German Navy, sinking the Scharnhorst, one of the few last remaining large warships in the enemy fleet. This victory would help to secure the safety of Allied convoys to Russia for the remaining 18 months of the war.
The codebreakers of Bletchley Park played a key role in helping the navy to locate Scharnhorst and were spectators on the final battle via German messages read in Naval Section at BP.
For this It Happened Here episode we are joined by Bletchley Park’s Research Historian Dr David Kenyon who’s recently published a book on the subject entitled, Arctic Convoys; Bletchley Park and the War for the Seas.
Many thanks to Dr Ben Thomson & Sarah Langston for voicing our archival documents.
Image: © Bundesarchiv, DVM 10 Bild-23-63-46 / CC-BY-SA 3.0
#BPark, #Bletchleypark, #WW2, #Enigma,
  continue reading

267 episodes

Artwork
iconShare
 
Manage episode 390859545 series 9395
Content provided by Bletchley Park. All podcast content including episodes, graphics, and podcast descriptions are uploaded and provided directly by Bletchley Park or their podcast platform partner. If you believe someone is using your copyrighted work without your permission, you can follow the process outlined here https://player.fm/legal.
December 2023
Eighty years ago this month Britain was marking its fifth Christmas of the war with still no end in sight. D-Day still lay in the future and the campaigns in Italy and on the Eastern Front ground on.
However on Boxing Day 1943 the Royal Navy achieved a significant, if grim success over the German Navy, sinking the Scharnhorst, one of the few last remaining large warships in the enemy fleet. This victory would help to secure the safety of Allied convoys to Russia for the remaining 18 months of the war.
The codebreakers of Bletchley Park played a key role in helping the navy to locate Scharnhorst and were spectators on the final battle via German messages read in Naval Section at BP.
For this It Happened Here episode we are joined by Bletchley Park’s Research Historian Dr David Kenyon who’s recently published a book on the subject entitled, Arctic Convoys; Bletchley Park and the War for the Seas.
Many thanks to Dr Ben Thomson & Sarah Langston for voicing our archival documents.
Image: © Bundesarchiv, DVM 10 Bild-23-63-46 / CC-BY-SA 3.0
#BPark, #Bletchleypark, #WW2, #Enigma,
  continue reading

267 episodes

All episodes

×
 
Loading …

Welcome to Player FM!

Player FM is scanning the web for high-quality podcasts for you to enjoy right now. It's the best podcast app and works on Android, iPhone, and the web. Signup to sync subscriptions across devices.

 

Quick Reference Guide