Jean Millar Valentine (* 1924, Perth, Scotland) war eine Operatorin bombe decryption device in Hut 11 at Bletchley Park in England, designed by Alan Turing and others during World War II.[1] She was a member of the "Wrens" (Women's Royal Naval Service, WRNS).[2] She was one of a number of women who worked at Bletchley Park.[3] During this time, she lived in Steeple Claydon in Buckinghamshire. She started working on 15 shillings (75 pence) a week. Along with her co-workers, she remained quiet about her war work until the mid-1970s.
More recently, Jean Valentine has been involved with the reconstruction of the bombe at Bletchley Park Museum,[4] completed in 2006.[5] In 2006, she said: "Unless people come pouring through the doors, a vital piece of history is lost. The more we can educate them, the better."[6] She demonstrates the reconstructed bombe at the Bletchley Park Museum[7][8] and also leads tours there.[9][10][11] She participated in a major reunion at Bletchley Park in 2009.[12][13]
On 24 June 2012, Jean Valentine spoke on her wartime experiences at Bletchley Park and elsewhere as part of a Turing's Worlds event to celebrate the centenary of the birth of Alan Turing, organized by the Department for Continuing Education's Rewley House at Oxford University in cooperation with the British Society for the History of Mathematics (BSHM).[14][15]
Valentine mentions during an interview conducted by Joe Miller for the BBC, how moving down to London was a new experience for her, as she had never been out of Scotland up to that point. Valentine worked for eight hours during the day at Bletchley Park and mentioned how no one would ever talk about what they have done or would be doing when outside of Bletchley Park. Valentine worked in Hut 11 as has been previously mentioned, recalling how there would be “five machines within the hut, ten girls and one petty officer that would be in charge of the telephone”.[16][17]
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- ↑ ComputerHeritage: Operating the Bombe: Jean Valentine's story. YouTube, abgerufen am 28. Juli 2014.
- ↑ Katy Lewis: Breaking the codes: Former Bletchley Park Wren, Jean Valentine, reveals exactly what went on at the World War II codebreaking centre. In: Beds, Herts & Bucks. BBC, 3. Juni 2009, abgerufen am 28. Juli 2014.
- ↑ The Women of Bletchley Park, Finding Ada, 26 July 2009.
- ↑ What to see at Bletchley Park: Bombe Rebuild Project, Bletchley Park, UK.
- ↑ Ben Fenton: Bletchley hums again to the Turing Bombe In: The Telegraph, 7 September 2006
- ↑ Esther Addley: Back in action at Bletchley Park, the black box that broke the Enigma code In: The Guardian, 7 September 2006
- ↑ Jean Valentine explains the bombe auf YouTube.
- ↑ Jean Valentine explains the bombe, CastTV.
- ↑ BCSWomen trip to Bletchley Park, BCSWomen, UK, 8 May 2008.
- ↑ The geese that laid the golden egg — but never cackled — Winston Churchill. In: Skirts and Ladders. Archive.org, 26. Juli 2009, archiviert vom am 14. März 2016.
- ↑ Feature: Decoding Bletchley Park's history, Gizmag Emerging Technology Magazine.
- ↑ The Wider View: Nazi codebreaker which shortened the Second World War by two years. The Mail on Sunday, 30 March 2009.
- ↑ 'Geese' cackle over Enigma: British code breakers reunite to celebrate secret work that helped Allies defeat Nazis, The Star, Toronto, Canada, 25 March 2009.
- ↑ Driving Miss Valentine. In: Diaphania.blogspirit.com. Blogspot, 6. Juli 2012, abgerufen am 3. September 2012.
- ↑ Jean Valentine: [[The Turing Guide]]. Hrsg.: Jack Copeland. Oxford University Press, 2017, ISBN 978-0-19-874783-3, S. 125–127.
- ↑ Marissa Fessenden: Women Were Key to WWII Code-Breaking at Bletchley Park. Abgerufen am 8. März 2018.
- ↑ computingheritage: Operating the Bombe: Jean Valentine's story. via YouTube, 14. März 2013, abgerufen am 8. März 2018.