NaPM April 27, 2017

[just mercedes]

Mavis and Margaret and the Battle of Cape Matapan


Mavis broke a message
between Belgrade and Berlin.
Margaret worked out the wiring
of the Abwehr Engima.

Mavis studied the German Romantics
at university before Bletchley Park
recruited her. Margaret was a career
statistician, predicting economic markets.

Mavis broke the Italian naval Enigma.
Margaret read the second message.
The British Mediterranean Fleet
intercepted the Italians off Crete,

attacked from sky and sea. Decimated
Regia Marina, for the rest of the war.
These two Englishwoman, workmates,
friends, beat the Italian navy.