wayne556517
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Made the room out of this.......................^&grin

Made the room out of this..............^&grin
Here are the 'real things'
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I saw it in he Deutsches Historisches Museum in Berlin in 2017 .....
AND not to out done, this one in the Imperial War Museum in London, seen on the same trip to Europe !
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John
Reminds me of the 5-rotor machine we used in the US Navy in the '50s. As you can imagine, decoding a message in heavy seas on a small boy could be challenging at the very least!
Bosun Al
Bosun Al...
you're gonna have to start proofing your posts a little closer...
this comes off as a little confusing...
not to mention strange...^&grin
Sorry, but perhaps I was too cryptic (pun intended) for you younger guys. I believe that the German Enigma machine as shown in the diorama had either three or four changeable rotors that were used in coding or decoding messages. The rotors were changed daily according to highly classified documents and had to be set in a predetermined pattern for the machine to work properly. It was not a simple task as the rotors had to be set perfectly and typing mistakes could not be tolerated.
Later machines, such as those used by the United States military, had five rotors and were installed in the radio room of most ships. Smaller craft, such as destroyers and destroyer escorts . . . the REAL Navy . . . were referred to as "small boys" among the fleet. You can imagine trying to set up the machine and decode messages while locked in a small compartment (perhaps four feet by five feet) with no ventilation while tossing and rolling in heavy seas. Hope this helps clarify my earlier post for the uninitiated.
Bosun Al; on active duty from 1956-1959