Cracking WWII-era codes - code found on a pigeon's leg in Surrey A recent BBC article entitled WWII code 'may never be cracked' posted a code:


AOAKN HVPKD FNFJW YIDDC
RQXSR DJHFP GOVFN MIAPX
PABUZ WYYNP CMPNW HJRZH
NLXKG MEMKK ONOIB AKEEQ
WAOTA RBQRH DJOFM TPZEH
LKXGH RGGHT JRZCQ FNKTQ
KLDTS FQIRW AOAKN 27 1525/6

According to the article the code was found on the leg of a pigeon in a chimney in Surrey a few weeks ago.

Do we have enough information about WWII-era codes (presuming that is when it comes from), such as the one above, to figure out what these long-forgotten codes might say?

EDIT: This was discussed on slashdot.
A problem with this message is that the image in a press release from GCHQ differs slightly from one in a New York Times article, although the paper, with its tears looks the same.

The image below shows the two side by side, the one on the left from the NY Times and the right from GCHQ. There is a slight difference in the style of writing, i.e. more sloping to the right in the GCHQ image. There are also some word differences: word 7 is GOVFN from GCHQ and FOVFN in the other.



That the message was found in Bletch***ing***ley, Surrey may be a bigger clue.