At 18 years of age Charlotte (Betty) Vine-Stevens leaves college and volunteers for the ATS, the Womens’s Army. After basic training she is given a travel warrant and instructions to go to Bletchley Station.
Between 1941 and 1945 Charlotte is stationed at the Government Code & Cypher School’s codebreaking operation at Bletchley Park.
At first, she works with Major Ralph Tester in the Mansion, where she registers undeciphered Enigma messages. Then she moves to the Japanese Section in Block F to paraphrase deciphered Japanese messages. In 1945, this work leads Carlotte to see out the war in the Pacific at The Pentagon.
Secret Postings is a personal memoir of Charlotte's life from a a childhood in rural Shropshire, to a turbulent pre-war Germany, a World War 2 adventure
at Bletchley Park, the Pentagon and beyond.
Between 1941 and 1945 Charlotte is stationed at the Government Code & Cypher School’s codebreaking operation at Bletchley Park.
At first, she works with Major Ralph Tester in the Mansion, where she registers undeciphered Enigma messages. Then she moves to the Japanese Section in Block F to paraphrase deciphered Japanese messages. In 1945, this work leads Carlotte to see out the war in the Pacific at The Pentagon.
Secret Postings is a personal memoir of Charlotte's life from a a childhood in rural Shropshire, to a turbulent pre-war Germany, a World War 2 adventure
at Bletchley Park, the Pentagon and beyond.
