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Question 1: Study source A. what can you learn about the work at Bletchley Park? We can see from the source that everyone was put into separate departments, 'we were very, very departmentalised'. The double 'very' emphasises how severely it was done. We can also learn that their work was very secretive and guarded, 'you never discussed your work with anyone except your little group'. The witness comments on how he 'hadn't a clue what was …

…to the war effort, it proved to be a great success and opened many doors in various battles and gave the British vital information; for example, the code breakers found out that certain operations were taking place in the Mediterranean. As a result the British sunk 3 heavy cruisers and 2 destroyers. If Bletchley Park had not been so successful the war would have definitely gone on far longer and maybe the situation would have changed completely.