LZ Granderson: Republicans keep trying to erase history
I was a senior in college when I learned a gay man helped save the world. True story. Even after years of history lessons about World War II, I was well into my 20s before hearing of Alan Turing, the man most credited with creating the algorithms that enabled the Allies to crack the Enigma code used by the Nazis in World War II. Before the Turing-led discovery, German submarines were able to ...
I was a senior in college when I learned a gay man helped save the world.
True story.
Even after years of history lessons about World War II, I was well into my 20s before hearing of Alan Turing, the man most credited with creating the algorithms that enabled the Allies to crack the Enigma code used by the Nazis in World War II.
Before the Turing-led discovery, German submarines were able to find and destroy Allied ships in the Atlantic, crippling efforts to, German subs sank more than 100 ships off the coast of North America and in the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean.
