Messages sent between the USNCML in Dayton and the Naval Communications Annex at Nebraska Avenue, Washington
The text of messages, and the listing of messages sent between Dayton and Washington were a useful way to describe the struggle to get bombes up and running in the documentary Dayton Codebreakers. They form a dramatic narrative of the successes and failures of the NCR and Navy crew in 1942 and 1943. I'm including some key pages here, along with the personnel roster and glossary at the beginning of the listing.
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Messages, Dayton to Washington:
- 21 June 1943, 02:45
- 21 June 1943, 12:40
- 21 June 1943, 15:50
- 21 June 1943, 17:52
- 21 June 1943, 17:52
- 21 June 1943, 18:03
- 21 June 1943, 19:35
- 21 June 1943, 20:20
- 21 June 1943, 21:04
- 2 July 1943, 17:05
- 21 June 1943, 18:03
- Sept 1943
Messages, Washington to Dayton:
- 19 June 1943, #1
- 19 June 1943, #2
- 19 June 1943, #3
- 19 June 1943, #4
- 19 June 1943, #5
- 21 June 1943
- 22 June 1943
The pages presented here are found at the National Archives and Records Administration at Silver Springs, Maryland. They are from Record Group 38, Box 184.
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