Morse code operator - (Enigma code) : Gerry Milsted

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I was transferred directly into the Y group and was trained to be a high speed radio intercept officer and we had to learn Morse to thirty four words a minute. It took six months but at the end of it I was a skilled operative. I was sent up to Whatton in Norfolk because the Russians rather were using the Enigma code to pass all their messages and they did in fact need us to intercept these signals and during that time, because some of the signals were weak, they transferred us into some old Halifax bombers which they equipped with radio receivers and we flew down the edge of the coast and we got slightly stronger signals and all this stuff that we took was put on paper and as soon as we landed it was immediately transferred to a truck really almost before we'd stopped and transferred to Nockholt.