Photograph, Operating and Maintenance Staff for the Bombe
date: label: date made
content: ca 1944
notes: label: Description
content: During World War II, the Allies successfully decrypted messages that had been enciphered by Axis forces using a cipher machine called the Enigma. This decrypting device was known in Britain and then the United States as the Bombe. The first American-made Bombe was completed in 1943, and by September of 1944 some 121 Bombes had been build at the NCR factory in Dayton, Ohio. This black-and-white photograph shows U.S. Navy staff responsible for maintenance and operation of Bombes.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Computers
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Philip J. Bochicchio
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1989.3110.13
label: catalog number
content: 1989.3110.13
label: nonaccession number
content: 1989.3110
objectType: label: Object Name
content: photograph
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 36 cm x 29 cm; 14 3/16 in x 11 7/16 in