During World War II , she worked at the code breaking centre of Bletchley Park , exploiting her knowledge of linguistics and codes , before joining the WAAF . They sent her to Palestine in 1945 , where she should have been off-duty at the King David Hotel when it was bombed in 1946 , but serendipity saw her exchange shifts , and she was working elsewhere when the bomb went off
it was bombed
King David Hotel bombing
Anne Asquith