The Evidence of source C does support the evidence of sources A and B. You can see this that all the sources have a description of how Bletchley Park operated. In source C it says, “We didn’t often know the results of our activities, which messages were important.”
Source A supports the quote in source C, you can see this in the lines “We were very, very departmentalised. You never discussed your work with anyone except your little group…”
Source B is a description of Bletchley Park while source C and source A is a description of the work at Bletchley Park, so the quote in source B doesn’t quite support what it says in source C, whilst source A reflects what it says in source C.
Wahida Noor (11O)
Bletchley Park C/Work (3)
How useful are Sources D and E in helping understand how Bletchley Park was able to crack the Enigma codes?
Source D is a description of the work in Hut 3 written by one of the Intelligence staff, whereas source E is a vague photograph of an Enigma Machine.
Source D does give some information in helping to understand how Bletchley Park was able to crack the Enigma codes; you can see this in the quote: “Every message as cross-referenced under one or two headings. That gave them their depth of knowledge of whether something of a similar kind was known to have happened earlier”. This quote doesn’t say anything about Hut 6, which was where the codes were cracked, but they do give a good idea of the work in Hut 3 and show how much effort they must have put into cracking the codes used on the machines. There are limitations as to when it was written (no date).
Source E on the other hand is a photo of the Enigma Machine. This machine helped Bletchley Park how to decode; numerous staff worked on the machine, this indicates the machines importance. But the source also has limitations; such as it doesn’t explain its main purpose. It also doesn’t contain any date of when the photo was taken. The author of the source is not mentioned, so we do not have a clue if the photo was taken by an inside staff of Bletchley Park or someone who didn’t work with Bletchley Park. There is also no written explanation of how the machine worked or if it had made an impact.
Because of the limits in source E, it doesn’t help as much as to how Bletchley Park was able to crack the Enigma codes, but on the other hand, source D has the relevant information to help us understand how Bletchley Park crack the codes even though the source does have boundaries of how Hut 6 worked to crack the codes. The quote: “Material came in fro Hut 6 in more or less German and a lot of it corrupts.” This quote in the source doesn’t explain why the messages corrupt.
Overall both sources do give minor information but leaves out the important facts, such as the date of when they were produced and the purpose of the sources.
Wahida Noor (11O)
Bletchley Park C/Work (4)
Source F is a memo by Winston Churchill and sent to his chief of staff, Lord Ismay, whilst Source G is a description of the work in Hut 6 written by one of the code breakers.
Both sources F and G can be used to understand how Bletchley Park was important to the war effort; however they have limitations as how Bletchley Park was important to the war effort.
Source F, which was written by Winston Churchill and sent to Lord Ismay has very limited information about Bletchley Park, since the source does not mention Bletchley Park in the quote and it also does not have a date of when it was written. From the quote where it says: “Make sure that they have all that they want”, this shows that it was very important to crack the code and the Prime Minister would go to extreme length and provide the staff with everything they needed, such as stationery to use, radios, etc.
From the quote: “Action this day”, you can learn that the Prime Minister wanted the work of Bletchley Park done on the same day. This also suggests the Prime Minister was particularly involved in the work of Bletchley Park.
Source G gives information of the work in Hut 6, since it was written by one of the code breakers who worked in Hut 6, but the information it doesn’t give is how useful Bletchley Park was to the war effort. The quote: “the magic moment comes when it really works and there it all is, the Italian, the German, or whatever it is”. From this quote in the source you can learn that breaking the codes on the enigma machine was very important to the code breakers and they worked day and night to crack them, you can see this from the quote: “the magic moment”. The writer uses exaggeration to show the success led to a positive impact on the war. The turning point was in 1941 when Bletchley Park was able to crack the German naval codes (Dolphin). Since then the importance of Bletchley Park increased and Churchill ordered that Bletchley Park should be given resources; this helped towards the panning of war strategies such as the Battle of Matapan.
Source F does not explain the importance of Bletchley Park to the war effort, but Source G did give some evidence, because it showed by breaking the enigma codes, this had a positive impact on the war, so this does tell us Bletchley Park had made a difference.