Re: The Macintosh is a girl's computer!

Rowland McDonnell <real-address-in-sig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Graeme Wall <Graeme@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

[snip]

My father was a Met Air Observer flying out of Iceland over the North
Atantic, he was producing the reports that were compared with the enigma
traffic. Probably the youngest person to be cleared into the Ultra secret.

<stunned> I'm astonished that they let someone like that into it - what
if the other side had caught him? Always a risk on that kind of job.

How would the Germans have gone about capturing him
while flying out of Iceland over the North Atlantic?

What is surprising about the story is that he would have been told.
Why not just collect the weather reports and send them to Bletchley,
where the comparing was done?

Jan
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