Irene Dixon obituary
Irene Dixon with a second world war German Lorenz machine in the background MargaretO’Connell Wed 10 Feb 2021 07.47 EST Last modified on Fri 5 Mar 2021 13.34 EST My friend Irene Dixon, who has died aged 96, was one of the first female operators of the second world war codebreaking machine Colossus Mk I at Bletchley Park in Buckinghamshire. Irene, an east Londoner, might never have worked at Bletchley had it not been for a chickenpox infection that prevented her from being sent to work in a wartime munitions factory in Birmingham. Someone must then have spotted her talent and, when she had r...
Source: theguardian.com