1.   The effect of these operations must surely have been to shorten the war.

2.   His continued existence actually shortens the war for us.

3.   Historians differ over how much the Bombe shortened the war.

4.   I tried, without success, to impress upon this woman that the war would be shortened considerably if Hitler did eat those chicken feet.

5.   One of the code breakers says that the work at Bletchley Park shortened the war by two years.

6.   British intelligence agents, working from Bletchley Park, cracked the code, which historians credit for shortening the war by as much as two years.

7.   Gen. Dwight Eisenhower, commander-in-chief of Allied forces, credited the Special opertions Executive with shortening the war in Europe by six months.

8.   Historians say the work of the Bletchley Park codebreakers shortened the war by as much as two years.

9.   Historians say that the cracking of Enigma was a major factor in the Allied victory and may have helped to shorten the war.