Talk:V-1 and V-2 intelligence

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The RAF raid on the 17th and 18th of August was due to intelligence gathered by my father Robert Kerr Grant, who was a WOP in Chicksands working to Bletchley Park. He was at his station when freak weather conditions brought very unusual radio signals from the Germans, from an area they had never been picked up on before. He collected the data for many hours, and was kept at his station with high ranking personel from Bletchely watching excitedly. The messages were about Peenamunde and the bombs, and were very detailed. The weather changed, and the signals stopped, never to be repeated. My father was called to Bletchley Park, and kitted up to go to one of the Scandanavian countries as an "embassy clerk" to continue to spy, but after the raid the Germans moved the bombs from the Peenamunde site. My father was devastated to learn he had to give up his newly aquired Burtons civilian suit. This was kept very quiet, and the bombers were not told about the intelligence. I am not sure if this is even recorded, and my father only repeated it years later when Bletchley was finally made public knowledge. He is numbered among the Bletchley Park veterans, as is my mother Beryl Hardiman. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2.218.84.157 (talk) 23:59, 9 August 2013 (UTC)

My father was also involved and the assertion that data was collected for many hours with high ranking personnel from BP is a little far fetched BECAUSE the data was in an encoded cypher - Enigma but may have been in the Lorenz code which meant it had to be broken at BP - no high ranking officer would have come out to watch an operator copying down Enigma or Lorenz signals. Wireless Operators copied Morse Code using HRO receivers and would have had no idea of what the message. Any signals would have been located using several of the "Y" stations who would also have obtained the direction from that station and by reporting the bearing from their station, plotting onto a map the location of the signals origins would have been calculated a job which was not done at RAF Chicksands. In fact most of the traffic that RAF Chicksands received was SOE based. I know of several - now deceased sadly, men and women who were based at RAF Chicksands at various times during the war, anything unusual would have also been recorded by at least two other operators to ensure that no part of the transmission was missed. Enigma was broken at BP using the Bombes designed by Alan Turing, whilst the Lorenz code was used by the German High Command which also meant Hitler and the only method used to break it was the Colossus computer. From September 1942 my father was based at BP and regularly visited RAF Chicksand, he was involved with breaking the Lorenz code - sadly he took a lot of information to his grave. He could speak German fluently, read Morse at about 60 words per minute and carried circuits in his head. He served in the Royal Air Force from day 1 to the last day of the war and was honourably discharged in 1946 with a pension and a broken mind. Like him I served in the RAF but it wasn't until 1995 that I discovered that my father had been at BP and it came to light when I mentioned that I was visiting BP, he asked me what I knew about BP and I replied I knew it was where the Enigma code had been broken. That was when he told me about Colossus and the reason it had been built - to break the Lorenz code.The Geologist (talk) 16:33, 21 October 2013 (UTC)

Proposed merge of Home Army and V-1 and V-2 into V-1 and V-2 intelligence

Apparent WP:CFORK. —Brigade Piron (talk) 16:35, 21 April 2021 (UTC)

Yep, good contender for merge. And to put more prose into the latter article. GraemeLeggett (talk) 18:17, 21 April 2021 (UTC)

Seems reasonable, as long as no content is lost during the merge. PS. Note that the Home Army article was created in 2005 by User:Volunteer Marek, and the other bigger scope in 2010 by a user who is now blocked. --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 05:32, 28 May 2021 (UTC)

  Y Merger complete. Klbrain (talk) 09:18, 4 June 2022 (UTC)