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Dorothy Wainwright

Dorothy Wainwright

Дороти Уэйнрайт

1922 – 2010

Dorothy Wainwright

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Biography

Dorothy Wainwright served as a codebreaker at Bletchley Park from 1942 to 1945, working in Hut 8 on naval Enigma decrypts. A mathematics student at Newnham College Cambridge before the war, she was recruited through a crossword competition. Her work contributed to breaking U-boat communications that helped turn the Battle of the Atlantic.

Biography (Russian)

Дороти Уэйнрайт работала дешифровщицей в Блетчли-парке с 1942 по 1945 год, занимаясь расшифровкой военно-морских кодов Энигмы в бараке 8.

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