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Along with fellow code-breaker Gordon Welchman he developed the “Bombe” which from late 1940 was decoding all messages sent by the Enigma machines.

From The Guardian • Nov. 2, 2018

He was decoding a message of unusual length.

From The Great Prince Shan by Oppenheim, E. Phillips (Edward Phillips)

Half an hour before his death, my uncle was decoding this dispatch in his library.

From The Great Prince Shan by Oppenheim, E. Phillips (Edward Phillips)