The Haines family lived at 2824 Grand Ave. Young Haines first attended the Scholta-Nollen school, and then Culver Military Academy, graduating from Roosevelt High School in 1926. He majored in engineering at the University of Pennsylvania, graduating in 1931. After college he had difficulty finding an engineering job, so he worked nights as a lineman on an eastern railroad running to Chicago. Haines used his experiences for his first novel, "Slim," which was published in 1934. "Slim" was his permanent entree to Hollywood. The 1937 movie starred Henry Fonda and Dubuque-born Margaret Lindsay. Haines' other film credits include "The Texans" (1938); "Beyond Glory" (1948); "The Wings of Eagles" (1957), a John Wayne film; and "Torpedo Run" (1958). In 1934, Haines married Frances Tuckerman. They had a son, William Jr., and daughter, Laura. In World War II, Haines reached the rank of lieutenant colonel while serving with the Army Air Force in London, where he worked on the "Ultra" project, helping to unlock Germany's secret codes. He detailed his experiences in a book called "Ultra" (1980). Haines, who lived many years in Southern California, died of a stroke while on a vacation cruise near Acapulco. His body was donated to medical research.
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Ultra (sometimes capitalised ULTRA) was the name used by the British for intelligence resulting from decryption of encrypted German radio communications in World War II. The term eventually became the standard designation in both Britain and the United States for all intelligence from high-level cryptanalytic sources. The name arose because the code-breaking success was considered more important than the highest security classification available at the time (Most Secret) and so was regarded as being Ultra secret.
Much of the German cipher traffic was encrypted on the Enigma machine, hence the term "Ultra" has often been used almost synonymously with "Enigma decrypts". However, in terms of the intelligence value, Lorenz SZ 40/42 decrypts were more important.
Polish reconstructions of the Enigma machine and techniques for decrypting ciphers produced on it were presented as a gift by Polish Military Intelligence to their French and British allies in Warsaw on July 26, 1939, just five weeks before the outbreak of World War II. It was not a moment too soon. Former Bletchley Park mathematician-cryptologist Gordon Welchman has written: "Ultra would never have gotten off the ground if we had not learned from the Poles, in the nick of time, the details both of the German military... Enigma machine, and of the operating procedures that were in use."
Until the name "Ultra" was adopted, there were several cryptonyms for intelligence from this source, including Boniface. For some time thereafter, "Ultra" was used only for intelligence from this channel.
F.W. Winterbotham, in The Ultra Secret (1974), quotes the western Supreme Allied Commander, Dwight D. Eisenhower, as at war's end describing Ultra as having been "decisive" to Allied victory in World War II...
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The distribution of Ultra information to Allied commanders and units in the field involved considerable risk of discovery by the Germans, and great care was taken to control both the information and knowledge of how it was obtained. Liaison officers were appointed for each field command to manage and control dissemination.
Dissemination of Ultra intelligence to field commanders was achieved by MI6, which operated Special Liaison Units (SLU) attached to major army and air force commands. The activity was organized and supervised on behalf of MI6 by Group Captain Frederick William Winterbotham.The SLU included intelligence, communications and cryptographic elements. Each SLU was headed by a British Army officer, usually a major, known as "Special Liaison Officer". The main function of the Liaison Officer or his deputy was to pass Ultra intelligence bulletins to the commander of the command he was attached to, or to other indoctrinated staff officers. In order to safeguard Ultra, special precautions were taken. The standard procedure was for the Liaison Officer to present the intelligence summary to the recipient, stay with him while he studied it and then take it back and destroy it.
Fixed SLU's existed at the Admiralty, the War Office, the Air Ministry and at RAF Fighter Command. These units had permanent teleprinter links to Bletchley Park.
Mobile SLUs were attached to field Army and Air Force headquarters. These SLUs depended on radio communications to receive intelligence summaries.
The first mobile SLUs appeared during the French campaign of 1940. An SLU supported the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) headed by General Lord Gort. The first liaison officers were Robert Gore-Browne and Humphrey Plowden. A second SLU of the 1940 period was attached to the RAF Advanced Air Striking Force at Meaux commanded by Air Vice-Marshal P H Lyon Playfair. This SLU was commanded by Squadron Leader F.W. (Tubby) Long.
