Secret duties of a signals interceptor : working with Bletchley Park, the SDS and the OSS, or, a long time to hope / Jenny Nater.
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TextPublisher: Barnsley, South Yorkshire : Pen & Sword Aviation, 2016Copyright date: ©2016Description: xiii, 206 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cmContent type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781473887121Subject(s): Nater, Jenny -- Correspondence | World War, 1939-1945 -- Cryptography -- Personal narrativesDDC classification: 940.54/8641092 LOC classification: D810.C88 | N38 2016D811 | .N384 2016Summary: SECOND WORLD WAR. The Second World War upended many lives, disrupting patterns and routines and bringing an array of terrifying new dangers with it. For Jenny Nater, the war brought great sadness but also opportunity. Like many women left behind on the home front during the war, she found herself in an unforeseen scenario in which her talents could be put to an unexpected use. But her war was destined to play out almost entirely in secret.Jenny served as a bilingual wireless operator in the top-secret Special Duties service (Y) at Dover, intercepting traffic from German surface craft in the English Channel and reporting it back to Bletchley Park (X). In this post she carried out important work for the war effort and also struck up a series of life-changing relationships, most notably with a Coastal Force Command Lieutenant, who was subsequently lost off the coast of Dover in tragic circumstances.
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SECOND WORLD WAR. The Second World War upended many lives, disrupting patterns and routines and bringing an array of terrifying new dangers with it. For Jenny Nater, the war brought great sadness but also opportunity. Like many women left behind on the home front during the war, she found herself in an unforeseen scenario in which her talents could be put to an unexpected use. But her war was destined to play out almost entirely in secret.Jenny served as a bilingual wireless operator in the top-secret Special Duties service (Y) at Dover, intercepting traffic from German surface craft in the English Channel and reporting it back to Bletchley Park (X). In this post she carried out important work for the war effort and also struck up a series of life-changing relationships, most notably with a Coastal Force Command Lieutenant, who was subsequently lost off the coast of Dover in tragic circumstances.
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