greymaus <maus@dmaus.org> writes:

>I read somewhere that girls/women were recruited for that job if they
>had refined accents. There was something about that vicar's wives were
>recruited for making one-pad pages for that sort of encryp* , picking
>bingo-style balls out of a container.

I have never seen anything like that in all my BP reading.

However....

At the beginning, BP badly needed trusted employees,
especially those who read German fluently.

They were found in the debutante daughters of the upper class
and royalty. Many had been overseas educations, as in Germany.

They wanted to contribute to the war effort. Further, they had
little in life to look forward to except being married off to
their parent's choice for them.

One was granddaughter of a Royal, and thus when he died, her
father and her moved up. One day she was working when someone
behind her "Ahem'd" and she turned around. There was her
godfather, and senior Park management.

"Hello, Uncle Dickie.."
He asked what she was doing, and she explained the index file.

The next day she was called on the carpet for wasting an
important officer's time. She defended herself by noting
he WAS her godfather, and he'd asked her.

BTW....

Uncle Dickie was Lord Mountbatten, head of Combined Operations,
and number 3 or 4 in the war effort.

See "The Debs of Bletchley Park."
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On 2021-06-08, Andreas Kohlbach <ank@spamfence.net> wrote:
> On 8 Jun 2021 10:35:13 GMT, greymaus wrote:
>>
>> I read somewhere that girls/women were recruited for that job [...]
>
> Watching some older Youtube videos about WWII and later industrial work,
> "women" were often called "girls", no matter what age.
>
> Political incorrect today.

Everything is politically incorrect nowadays.
Bring back the mini-skirt!

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On 2021-06-09, greymaus <maus@dmaus.org> wrote:

> On 2021-06-08, Andreas Kohlbach <ank@spamfence.net> wrote:
>
>> On 8 Jun 2021 10:35:13 GMT, greymaus wrote:
>>
>>> I read somewhere that girls/women were recruited for that job [...]
>>
>> Watching some older Youtube videos about WWII and later industrial work,
>> "women" were often called "girls", no matter what age.
>>
>> Political incorrect today.
>
> Everything is politically incorrect nowadays.
> Bring back the mini-skirt!

_Fuck_ political correctness!
-- Billy Connolly

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