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British military and was detailed to the FANYs (First Aid Nursing Yeomanry), with further assignment to the elite SOE (Special Operations Executive) group. SOE detailed specially trained women to maintain communications with resistance movements in occupied Europe; as volunteers to train as wifeless operators; and as coders. Priscilla served as a communications coding cryptographer until discharge in 1945. Some of her military time was spent at the famed British communications and intelligence center at Bletchley Park in England.
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Priscilla lived in Warsaw, Poland, until his retirement in the late 1960s, during which time Priscilla was employed in the cultural attache's office of the American embassy. The couple relocated back to Britain in 1972. After Tadeusz died in 1975 Priscilla supported herself as a librarian
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Priscilla were survived by a daughter Bronislawa (son-in-law Leszek Tyburski), two grand children (George Tyburski and Fiona Tyburski-Archer) and a great grandson (Zachery Tyburski). As of 2023 All the decedents of Tadeusz and Priscilla Olsza Blomberg live in the suburbs of Detroit,
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