SIGSALY: Churchill's top secret hotline to the president(iwm.org.uk)
127 points by stmw | 44 comments
Imperial War Museums article on Churchill's top secret SIGSALY encrypted telephone hotline to the US President from the Churchill War Rooms.
#world-war-ii on Hacker News
13 stories tagged world-war-ii, newest first.
The art of defusing a second world war bomb(theguardian.com)
120 points by sandebert | 94 comments
A Guardian long read about British Army bomb disposal teams and the work of defusing unexploded second world war bombs.
Nazi Germany had no hope of making an atomic bomb, uranium cubes reveal(science.org)
97 points by xqcgrek2 | 47 comments
Science magazine news article reporting that analysis of uranium cubes shows Nazi Germany's experimental reactor lacked enough uranium and heavy water to succeed.
Show HN: A working 3D model of an Enigma machine(enigma.design)
87 points by primitivesuave | 32 comments
An interactive 3D model of the WWII Enigma cipher machine that lets visitors explore how its internal mechanics encrypt messages.
B5-BJ2 – Ice Cream Barges – Concrete Ship Constructors (2023)(thecretefleet.com)
17 points by nixass | 7 comments
Blog post from the Concrete Ships Encyclopedia about the B5-BJ2 concrete "ice cream barges" built by Concrete Ship Constructors during World War II.
“This telegram must be closely paraphrased before being communicated to anyone”(history.stackexchange.com)
720 points by azeemba | 126 comments
A History Stack Exchange question asking why WWII telegrams carried the notice that they must be closely paraphrased before being communicated to anyone.
How the U.S. became a science superpower(steveblank.com)
420 points by groseje | 407 comments
Steve Blank blog post on how WWII-era science advisors and policy choices made the U.S. a science and engineering superpower while Britain fell behind.
Bletchley code breaker Betty Webb dies aged 101(bbc.com)
482 points by danso | 90 comments
BBC News obituary reporting that Bletchley Park code breaker Betty Webb has died at the age of 101.
Visualizing World War II(nathangoldwag.wordpress.com)
410 points by gaws | 85 comments
A blog post on Goldwag's Journal on Civilization presenting visualizations and maps of World War II history.
Mapping 20k ships that sank during WW II(storymaps.arcgis.com)
432 points by ohjeez | 181 comments
An Esri StoryMaps feature about one man's mission to map the more than 20,000 ships that sank during World War II and the stories behind them.
300k airplanes in five years(construction-physics.com)
339 points by juliangamble | 494 comments
Construction Physics essay by Brian Potter on how the US ramped up aircraft manufacturing to build about 300,000 airplanes during World War II.
The Carrot Problem(atvbt.com)
492 points by deadcoder0904 | 267 comments
Essay on Atoms vs Bits about the 'carrot problem': using a plausible cover story, like WWII British claims that carrots improved night vision, to hide a real advantage.
Linux Air Combat: free, lightweight and open-source combat flight simulator(askmisterwizard.com)
407 points by nateb2022 | 126 comments
Project homepage for Linux Air Combat, a free open-source WWII combat flight simulator for Linux derived from GL-117, offered as source and AppImage.