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  • Somerset IAS – The World War II Listening Stations of the South-West

    Silver Street Baptist Church Hall Silver Street, Taunton, Somerset, United Kingdom

    Speaker Colin White has identified the locations and condition of around twenty-five World War II covert listening stations (known as "Y-Stations") in the West Country, many along the strategically important coastlines of the English and Bristol Channels. They collected vast quantities of encrypted enemy radio messages, which were the raw material for the codebreakers at Bletchley Park…