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How Mathematicians Helped Win WWII - Photos
A four-rotor Enigma machine used by the German navy, the kind of machine Alan Turing was most concerned to solve.
A view of the inside of a German naval Enigma, showing the four rotors in place.
Front view of the British bombe.
Back view of the British bombe showing the mass of cables necessary for the machine to work.
Adolf Hitler receiving the salute of German troops in Warsaw following their conquest of Poland.
Arthur Scherbius, the German engineer who invented the Enigma machine.
Alan Turing, the British mathematician who devised the bombe to recover Enigma keys.
U.S. Army unit moving through captured German town.
Historical Document | Date Posted: Jan 15, 2009