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CHATHAM'S ROLE IN DEFEATING THE NAZIS COMES ALIVE THIS SUMMER AT THE CHATHAM MARCONI MARITIME CENTER
Chatham's top-secret role in defeating the Germans during World War II
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CHATHAM, Mass - Chatham’s top-secret role in defeating the Germans during World War II comes alive this summer at the Marconi-RCA Wireless Museum as the Chatham Marconi Maritime Center (www. http://chathammarconi.org/) pays homage to the 70th anniversary of the war’s end.
The museum on the Center’s campus at 847 Orleans Road (Route 28) in North Chatham opens Saturday, June 20th for two days during Chatham History Weekend (Saturday admission is free). Regular summer-season hours, Tuesday-Sunday, commence June 27th.
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Stalking the U-Boats: Chatham Radio 1942-1945 is the theme for special exhibits and the Thursday evening Summer Speaker Series will also follow a Second World War theme.
The center’s Marconi-RCA Wireless Museum salutes Chatham Radio’s crucial top-secret role during World War II. The Navy’s “Station C” located marauding German U-Boats and intercepted their Enigma-encrypted radio messages, key to winning The Battle Of The Atlantic.
A new interactive display features both a real German Enigma-cypher machine and an electronic Enigma simulator, which will allow visitors to encrypt and decipher their own messages. The Enigma was a central figure in last year’s Oscar-nominated The Imitation Game.
Interactive exhibits, including learning Morse code and tracing a ship-to-shore telegram through all of its steps, fill the museum, which traces 100 years of wireless communications.
About Chatham Marconi Maritime Center
Founded in 2002, the Chatham Marconi Maritime Center sits on the 11.3-acre, 10-building campus comprised of the former Marconi/RCA Wireless Receiving Station, once the busiest ship-to-shore station on the East Coast and a significant military installation (during World War II). The Operations Building now houses the Marconi/RCA Wireless Museum offering interactive exhibits tracing the story of wireless communication in Chatham from its formative days with Marconi, through the 20th Century. The recently renovated campus residence, also once known as the Hotel Nautilus, is the Education Center with additional space for administrative offices.
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