Road Trip 2011: Code breakers led by Alan Turing were able to beat the Germans at their cipher games, and in the process shorten the war by as much as two years. At Bletchley Park, all the work took place in secret, where it stayed for decades.

Did breaking Enigma shorten the war?

There should be a statue of him in London among Britain's other leading war heroes. Some historians estimate that Bletchley Park's massive codebreaking operation, especially the breaking of U-boat Enigma, shortened the war in Europe by as many as two to four years.

Did Alan Turing help win the war?

Overlooked No More: Alan Turing, Condemned Code Breaker and Computer Visionary. His ideas led to early versions of modern computing and helped win World War II.