![]() If U-boat Enigma had not been broken, and the war had continued for another two to three years, a further 14 to 21 million people might have been killed.” (Source: BBC)Ĥ. ![]() “At a conservative estimate, each year of the fighting in Europe brought on average about seven million deaths, so the significance of Turing’s contribution can be roughly quantified in terms of the number of additional lives that might have been lost if he had not achieved what he did. ![]() “Some historians estimate that Bletchley Park’s massive codebreaking operation, especially the breaking of U-boat Enigma, shortened the war in Europe by as many as two to four years.” (Source: BBC )ģ. Eisenhower told the British intelligence chief in July 1945 that ULTRA, “saved thousands of British and American lives and, in no small way, contributed to the speed with which the enemy was routed and eventually agreed to surrender.”” (Source: Central Intelligence Agency)Ģ. “Turing’s work at Bletchley Park was vital in ending the war. What it and the substance of the comic does not capture are the monumental ramifications of Mr Turing’s work:ġ. ![]() ![]() It also notes the 2013 pardon granted by Queen Elizabeth II for the conviction of Mr Turing of the crime of homosexuality. The afterword to this comic notes the 2009 formal posthumous apology to Alan Turing in the United Kingdom parliament made by then-Prime Minister Gordon Brown on behalf of the British Government. ![]()
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