Channel 5 Catch Up TV

[vic mcclymont]

Last nigh Tuesday, 11th November, Channel 5 at 20:30 showed a programme "How Britain Won WW2", apparently has a large piece about the MN. Unfortunately I missed it, so can't give full appraisal but will watch on catch up.
Vic

[John Arton]

Watched that last night, excellent section on the battle of the Atlantic with the presenter paying tribute to all the MN guys who lost their lives during the course of it. Fascinating bit about how we persuaded America to join us by giving them the intellectual rights to a number of our inventions in order they could manufacture them in the quantity required foremost amongst them being air borne radar that when fitted to long range liberator aircraft enabled them to find and destroy u boats on the surface. Also a good bit on the code breakers at bletcley park, amongst them a mathematician, not touring, who cracked the code that the top Nazis used to pass messages between the top guys who used an updated enigma model, he cracked the coded message that showed Hitler's plan to invade Russia, that info was passed to the Russians which resulted in the German force being destroyed at the battle of Kursk.
Rgds
J.A.

[happy daze john in oz]

We had what was most likely the same program here in Oz on SBS TV last year.
Very good contribution to the many programs we get about WW2 here.
Saturday afternoon for almost six months now the story of the rise and fall of 'that' man.
Very interesting though.