British codebreakers were based at the site during the war and fed crucial information to Allied forces in the weeks leading up to the largest sea invasion in history on D-Day in 1944.
Codebreaking Second World War veterans smiled as they reunited at the scene of their wartime service in Bletchley Park, near Milton Keynes.
During the visit, which was Ms Doll's first time attending the reunion, she was shown a Hollerith machine that allowed code-breaking work, previously done by hand, to be conducted much more quickly. Read More Property where Bletchley Park codebreakers stayed as they intercepted Nazi codes with Alan Turing's Enigma machine goes on the market for £3.25million Ms Doll had worked as a Hollerith Operator at Bletchley Park and, after the war, for the Red Cross in Germany where she married her husband.
Their work enabled British intelligence to move more quickly and act upon the information the Bletchley team gave them, contributing to a number of key military victories during the war. During the visit, Kate told a group of children it was 'really cool' that members of her family had served at the codebreaking centre.
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