Blackett's War (54 page)

U.S. Navy captain Wilder D. Baker, who brought American scientists into the anti-U-boat fight (shown here in 1944 receiving the Navy Cross) (
Illustration Credit 13
)

MIT’s Philip Morse, the physicist who directed ASWORG, and his deputy William Shockley of Bell Labs (
Illustration Credit 14
)

Air Marshal John Slessor, who clashed with Blackett over RAF bombing policy (
Illustration Credit 15
)

A cartoon adorning the back cover of an ASWORG report (
Illustration Credit 16
)

Punch card used by Coastal Command ORS to analyze attacks on U-boats: these cards stored considerably more information than those used by IBM machines, but had to be sorted by hand (using knitting needles) to select cards with specified criteria.

One of the U.S. Navy’s electromechanical “bombes” used to recover the daily settings of the U-boat Enigma codes (
Illustration Credit 17
)

U-118
under depth charge and machine gun attack by aircraft from the U.S. escort carrier
Bogue
, June 12, 1943 (
Illustration Credit 18
)

U-boats under construction in Hamburg at the war’s end (
Illustration Credit 19
)

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