A talk given on 10th February 2025 by our guest speaker Colin White
The Y stations were a network of radio stations across the UK and elsewhere that listened in to the secret German military communications. The Germans did not believe that the British could retrieve anything decipherable in their inter-unit messages from as far away as mainland Britain. Little but, they did not know that through the 1930s the British had in secret been developing radio receivers that were much better than anything the Germans had.
The successful eavesdropping of a huge number of secret German military messages throughout the war and their decryption at Bletchley Park was so important, that it is thought to have foreshortened the war by as much as two years.
