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Re: Top Five most Decivice Elements of WW2? (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jim Choate)
Tue Jan 5 19:14:37 1999
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From: Francois Charton <frcharton@compuserve.com>
Subject: Re: Top Five most Decivice Elements of WW2?
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Donald Mc Lean wrote:
>
>Codebreaking may have been used by both sides, but the allies ran
>rings around everybody in its use. It may or may not have been
>decisive (which is a very strong term), but it gave the allies
>an incredibly powerful advantage that nobody else had.
>
In the PTO, no doubt about it. For the ETO, the situation is harder to
assess, as all the published information is about US and some British
codebreaking. Nothing is known about the Russians, and all German
codebreaking info taken by the allies is still classified, and so
unavailable. The only things which are known are that German read a lot o=
f
French codes in 1940, British convoy codes in 1942 and some British code =
in
North Africa, but a lot is still missing...
Francois
