How Alan Turing Turned the Tides of World War 2

The codes used by the Japanese weren’t the only ones that posed some difficulty to the American Military Intelligence and the Allied Forces during World War 2. For example, the Nazi Enigma code was so unbreakable that it kept the Allies scrambling while German U-boats sunk supply ships.

But one man rose to the challenge. In 1941, British mathematician Alan Turing helped design the machine that deciphered and cracked the Enigma code, revealing the positions of German submarines. While his efforts in solving the codes eventually contributed to the Allied victory, Turing also helped lay the groundwork for modern computing.