Bourne, an 18-year-old naval recruit who was sent to one of the parks expansion locations in Eastcote -- on the outskirts of London -- was one of many who was never able to tell her loved ones about her contribution to the war. You led two lives there, she recalls. One life was in A Block, where you ate in the canteen, and talked about boyfriends, and getting trains to London, and where to find black nylon stockings. B Block was where we worked, surrounded by high walls, barbed wire and two naval marines guarding the place. If you could make your voice heard over the noise of 12 Turing Bombe machines, that was the only time you would speak about work -- but you never would, she explains. I never knew what any of my coworkers were doing, and vice versa, and my parents never knew a thing of it.
Posted on: Mon, 11 Nov 2013 21:33:52 +0000
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