Secret Postings: Bletchley Park to the Pentagon

At 18 years of age, Charlotte Vine-Stevens (Betty) leaves college and volunteers for the ATS, the Womens’ Army. After basic training, she is given a travel warrant and instructions to go to Bletchley Station. Between 1941 and 1945 Charlotte is stationed at the Government Code & Cypher school’s codebreaking operation at Bletchley Park. At first Charlotte works with Major Ralph Tester in the Mansion, where she registered undeciphered Enigma messages. Then she moves to the Japanese Section in Block F to paraphrase deciphered Japanese messages. In 1945, this work leads Charlotte to see out the war in the Pacific at The Pentagon. Secret Postings is a personal memoir following Charlotte's life from a childhood in rural Shropshire to a turbulent pre-war Germany, a Second World War adventure at Bletchley Park, the Pentagon and beyond.