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The From the home of the codebreakers and the birthplace of modern computing, this is the Bletchley Park podcast.

Welcome to the August 2019 episode of the Bletchley Park podcast.

90 days.

In earlier episodes this year, we've concentrated on the preparations for and the events

of D-Day itself, the 6th of June.

However, D-Day was only the beginning of the Normandy campaign.

The Allies had to face an enemy determined to throw them back into the sea, and it led to some of the

bitterest fighting that Western Europe saw in World War II. It would eventually, after three months,

end in a massive victory for the Allies and the liberation of Paris at the end of August

1944. In this, it happened here episode, we see how Bletchley Park continued to contribute to Allied

success. We'll find out how the nature of this contribution changed, from one of supporting the

planning of future operations to one of supporting an ongoing battle.

Bletchley Park.

It happened here.

With the recent 75th anniversary of D-Day, with these podcasts, we've been looking a lot at D-Day itself as one day.

A lot of people might maybe just think that that's it, it's one single day.

Can you tell us what came after?

The landings themselves are only the start of a campaign that would last for several months.

The seaborne invasion is known as Operation Neptune,

and at the end of D-Day, it's been 156,000 Allied troops put ashore in Normandy,

but this is only the opening part of Operation Overlord,

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