Coded WWII message found

Surely sense would advocate to ones self that taking a coded message to the source is a tad unwise?

Sure it is obvious sense, but it just happens to be silly, going to someone without bias would have been less of a waste of time.
 
Greebo said:
Imagine if the message was something huge and it could have stopped the war a year or so early if it had got through?

I saw this on the news the other week and they said it was really rare for the messages to be in code so obviously important.
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If it was that important they may have used more than one pigeon, just in case :p

Be interesting to see what it says though.
 
Nightglow said:
Special Operations Executive.
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True story that gobsmacked me.
I had to go and knock on the front door of the bloke who's house is at the back of mine to retrieve a ball.
While he went to fetch it I stood looking at a display of medals in a case in the hall and I thought 'That's a VC' :eek:
He came back and I asked him if it was and he said it belonged to his Dad which surprised me because the only VC award in Stoke was a bloke called Jack Baskeyfield who is my Dads Uncle.
He said his Dad was a member of the SOE and they were never acknowledged.
Anyway I left with two videos about SOE's (because I'd never heard of them) and one was a feature film called Carve Her Name With Pride (!).

About 3 months later I was round his house again when I'd read a newspaper article saying a VC had been sold at Sotheby's for £250,000 so he decided to lock it away somewhere.

I just thought I'd share because for me it was a fascinating story.
 
'Wes said:
So why is this pigeon branded a hero? It did **** all.
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I agree and didn't realise the pigeon had. I mean after all he failed. You can't even say he was shot down by the enemy. A mile from home he went down the wrong chimney. Stupid pigeon.
 
believe it or not, i have software running this 5 letter codegroup as we speak, it has been running for over 4 weeks now, and its around 93% complete,

just waiting on the result, sometime just before xmas hoefully
 
soundood said:
believe it or not, i have software running this 5 letter codegroup as we speak, it has been running for over 4 weeks now, and its around 93% complete,

Just waiting on the result, sometime just before xmas hoefully
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Most intresting, how come you think you can crack it, if GCHQ can't, prehaps it has been cracked, but info being withheld?

QUOTE: According to experts, it impossible to decipher this enigmatic code without its codebook.

Will be interesting to see what you get.

Soundhood: Slightly off topic,every read about the Ricky McCormick case & that coded message, not sure if it has been solved yet.

http://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/2011/march/cryptanalysis_032911
 
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