re: #140 Walter L. Newton

And to correct a fact, you already know that Lawrence Pritchard Waterhouse had more to do with breaking the Enigma code than anyone.

Fail.

There should be no question in anyone’s mind that Turing’s work was the biggest factor in Hut 8’s success. In the early days he was the only cryptographer who thought the problem worth tackling and not only was he primarily responsible for the main theoretical work within the Hut but he also shared with Welchman and Keen the chief credit for the invention of the Bombe. It is always difficult to say that anyone is absolutely indispensable but if anyone was indispensable to Hut 8 it was Turing. The pioneer’s work always tends to be forgotten when experience and routine later make everything seem easy and many of us in Hut 8 felt that the magnitude of Turing’s contribution was never fully realised by the outside world.
—Alexander, Sir C. Hugh O’D. Cryptographic History of Work on the German Naval Enigma. The National Archives, Kew, Reference HW 25/1.