December 2013
This month, we join Bletchley Park historian Dr Joel
Greenberg & AS Level history students from Milton Keynes
College as they discover hidden treasures under The
Mansion car park. Footings of what the Bletchley Park
Trust believes were the first few wooden huts built at the
outbreak of World War Two were found when the tarmac
was removed.
We find out what happened at a specially set-up monitoring
station in the National Radio Centre at Bletchley Park,
when AMSAT-UK launched FUNcube-1, a 10cm cubed
satellite weighing less than a kilogram, over Russia.
We have an exclusive interview with Professor’s Barry
Cooper & Jack Copeland who spoke about some of the
lesser known heroes of Bletchley Park at the day of
sold-out talks, Codebreakers’ Legacy. They talk about the
continuing interest in Alan Turing & what also what they
think about the forthcoming film of his life.
Yet again we have the honour of interviewing one of our
Veterans. Cynthia Legge (nee Mould) was a Wren Bombe
Operator based at Stanmore during WW2. She shares her
recollections with us including blind dates, Doodlebugs &
the job with tweezers she describes as hell on earth.
You can find AMSAT-UK at www.amsat-uk.org
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