Germany bombing Bletchley Park - by accident

Yabbut the Peenemunde raid was a planned attack by almost 600 heavy 4-engine bombers, dropping 1,800 tons of bombs.

It's highly unlikely that one or a few misguided twin-engine bombers dropping 5-10 tons at Bletchley Park is going to do anywhere near the damage, or much at all.

1800 bombs, but the only bomb that really mattered was the one which directly or indirectly killed Thiel. The two british bombers colliding and crashing on Bletchley Park could have been a disaster of the same order of magnitude as the failure of Dunquerke evacuation.

As another example of what a single bomb could have done, Claude Eatherly, against specific orders, tried to drop his Pumpkin bomb on Tokyo Imperial Palace: imagine Hiroito killed in action and every Japanese vowing vengeance on the white devils.
 
All fair comments.

If we try to summarise so far:

1) The bombe(s) in 1940 were few. Even if all had been destroyed, it would have been possible to manufacture new one's

2) Personnel at BP was spread in different hotels, pubs, inns etc, so have a 100% concentration would be hard to achieve.

3) Backup sites of docs: Spread but on-sit and in danger of secondary explosions (kilns with ammo)

4) It would take more than just a few bombs to really wreak the place.

5) However, the single bomb hitting the right target might be within reach

Fair summary?

It is still within reality that an accidental handful of bombers could have bombed the place by mistake and killed off the most important people AND having destroyed an amount of docs.

Now what?

1940 is not yet 1941 or 1942, but how would that go in the Atlantic.

Ivan
 
To summarize, you've got a blank sheet of paper covered in butterflies, without clever Brits to shoo them away. Are there any cleverish Brits left to take up the challenge? Is there enough material left for the challenge to be addressed?

On the bright side, B-Dienst was reading RN cyphers used to re-direct convoy routes per Ultra decrypts. These won't be a factor any more.
 
It was not a question of hardware or documentation, it was a question of the few supremely talented minds which were the intellectual core of Bletchely Park.

Think Manhattan Project without a few key persons like Fermi or Taylor. E.g. Taylor was the man that understood the physics of the implosion well enough to devise ways to make it uniform enough for plutonium bombs to be workable. Without him, in summer 1945 the US has a single Mk-1 and Oak Ridge has to work until the end of the year before having enough HEU for a second gun-type nuke.
 
1800 bombs, but the only bomb that really mattered was the one which directly or indirectly killed Thiel.

I rather think the staff at Peenemunde would disagree.

The two british bombers colliding and crashing on Bletchley Park could have been a disaster of the same order of magnitude as the failure of Dunquerke evacuation.

If you want to postulate a Magic Bullet, go ahead. But it's not plausible.
 
Colossus would probably not have been there for years.

It leads into another question:

What would the US have done if BP had been wiped out?

Ivan
 
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