Alan Turing
The Governement Response on Turing Message
Bletchley, Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, England, United Kingdom
On 18 November, the chief of the secret service reported that every possible measure was being taken. The cryptographers at Bletchley Park did not know of the Prime Minister's response, but as Milner-Barry recalled, "All that we did notice was that almost from that day the rough ways began miraculously to be made smooth." More than two hundred bombes were in operation by the end of the war.