... sent from Hut 6. The messages grew, so the huts had to be manned twenty- four hours a day. There were three watches each with eight hour shifts. Hut 3 was manned by the head of the watch, whose job it was to hand out messages to the staff as they arrived. This was an important role because the head had to prioritize each message. Much of the work was tiresome and repetitive but nonetheless important to solving the German codes. The translated messages were sent off to MI6 at the end of the day by van, however after an invasion of Norway a new system was setup. The people in Hut 3 had to judge the importance of each message they translated, the messages were divided into 4 piles. Pile 1- urgent messages sent by teleprinter directly to MI6, pile 2- sent by teleprinter later in the day, pile 3- ...

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