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4th October 2009, 10:51

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Re: Using Ultra to research the Luftwaffe

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Originally Posted by Jim Oxley

Nick, this line caught my eye.

Any idea why the card index would have been destroyed? Surely not for security reasons.

Exactly that, I'm afraid. At least according to all the accounts of the survivors. And by demolishing the Colossus computers our leaders unwittingly threw away a whole postwar industry and had to start again a few years later.

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