@barbarabeard6017
Excellent! Thank you for this. I had somewhat educated myself about Bletchley years ago but as your report demonstrates many of us had never heard of Welchman. How very sad this happened to him in the end for all of the lives he saved and the brilliant steps that birthed our computer and defense industry, indeed saving and continuing to save millions of lives. I will not forget him.
@alizaidanthamyeez740
After watching this I’m in partial outrage that Gordon Welshman hasn’t been honored more
@larrynile8770
I live in Newburyport, MA, in the US. I also worked here in the 70's a few hundred feet from where he lived. It's likely I caught sight of him, or maybe bumped into him on the street, without knowing. To compound this, I have a very close relative who worked at MITRE (with the same Security clearance level), during this period period, who almost certainly knew him. Small World.
@FrederickBowdler
Remember that the Polish Army had received a German Enigma Machine (posted mistakenly to a town in Poland with a similar name to the German town. It was copied and returned.😊
@RalphBrooker-gn9iv
A shame that these great men fall in this way. Turing’s fate was barbaric. As a Brit I studied at Sussex University, School of Computing & Cognitive Sciences (with the acronym COGS, a nod and a wink to Turing). Like Oppenheimer, Welshman was perhaps fatally naive. Or maybe not. What really should be in the public domain? I can only thank him for his work as an Englishman. Worth adding my Grandad was on the Hood, drafted in 1939.
@kdr3619
So the part where Welchman wrote directly to Churchill, requesting more staff ... was given to Turing in the film, the Imitation Game. But of course.
@christycullen2355
No mention of Tommy flowers the man who built colossus
@joslynscott466
America thanks you Gordon. You're a hero. Sadly, I think his book being quashed was a result of two very important reasons. The first- a very big part of Germany was still an enemy to the west. The second- Kim Philby.
@Whatisright
Bless the folks who can see the big picture in the details.
@mortalclown3812
The secrecy was as extraordinary as anything.
@deeballard4554
Amazing documentary.
@Rae2492
This book was still classified information to British. It was still in violation of his oath. He broke his oath. Just because one person broke military oath, didn’t make it right. He tarnished his legacy. I’m in no way military, but I would have taken away his security clearance too. Turing didn’t break his oath. Public doesn’t decide what classified information gets released.
@peterurbanski9718
What so Alan Turin did not do everything himself, I don't believe you (note the sarcasm) Go read "To live well is to hide well" .
@-ShootTheGlass-
The irony of decoding a German message sent to check up on the safety of a son and where the Bismarck was heading. The answer, “Breast” , doomed 2000 odd sailors and quite possibly the son the original message was enquiring after.
@frederickbowdler8169
do we believe that the units sent their identities uncoded why how ? just by radio i suppose,??
@Editx4fun
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@doctorshawzy6477
lots of misleading narration
@adelarsen9776