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December 1944

Signal Intelligence: Nearly 12 months after its introduction, the first Allied countermeasures to the Luftwaffe’s Unkehrwalze Dora (UKD) become operational. The electromechanical Autoscritcher machine deciphers the UKD-encrypted Red code, but is very slow. The electronic version, Superscritcher, will not enter service until after the war.