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The Codebreakers: 4: Operation Overlord

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on BBC Two England

Presented by Rene Cutforth

The D-Day operation, codename Overlord, was probably the best kept secret of the whole war. Everyone knew it was coming but no one knew exactly when or where. German Intelligence was geared to finding out. Hitler's two most important codebreaks came from Churchill himself and the BBC. Churchill, through his scrambler telephone in Whitehall; and the BBC, through its coded messages broadcast to Resistance workers in France.

Contributors

Presenter:
Rene Cutforth
Based on the book by:
David Kahn
Director:
Stuart Harris
Writer/Producer:
Bruce Norman
Source: Radio Times

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