Steeljack,
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Coventry ( a town Churchill sacrificed)
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Where do you have the evidence for this?
According to, Peter Calvocoressi,in his book Top Secret Ultra, said the following: "Ultra never mentioned Coventry... Churchill, so far from pondering whether to save Coventry or safeguard Ultra, was under the impression that the raid was to be on London."
He was Head of the Air Section at Bletchley Park, the place where they deciphered the Engima Machine messages under the code name of Ultra.
Also R.V Jones, who was the scientist in charge of the fight to jam the Germans radar, called the Battle of the Beams wrote in his book "Enigma signals to the X-beam stations were not broken in time," the X beams being a very accurate German targeting radar.
Thus I find it hard to understand your comment, unless it is referring to Group Captain F. W. Winterbotham's book, The Ultra Secret, in which he claimed that Ultra, the group responsible for cracking the Egnima, decoded a message saying Coventry was to be bombed and that Winston Churchill decided not to order any defensive measures for Coventry, in case the German high command realised we could crack Enigma.
Although Group Captain Winterbotham was the Special Liaison Officer in charge of delivering Ultra's output, his claim has been rejected by others involved in Ultra and historians alike.
20:20 vision is a great thing.