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U.S. Army Signals Intelligence Service cryptologists, mostly women, at work at Arlington Hall circa 1943. The Code Girls or World War II Code Girls is a nickname for the more than 10,000 women who served as cryptographers (code makers) and cryptanalysts (code breakers) for the United States Military during World War II, working in secrecy to break German and Japanese codes.
During World War II, Arlington Hall was in many respects similar to Bletchley Park in Buckinghamshire, England (although BP also covered naval codes) and was one of only two primary cryptography operations in Washington (the other was the Naval Communications Annex, which was also housed in a commandeered private girls' school). Arlington Hall ...
Virginia Dare Aderholdt was an Arlington Hall cryptanalyst and Japanese translator. She decrypted the intercepted Japanese surrender message at the close of World War II on August 14, 1945. Early years
It was founded in 1930 to compile codes for the Army. It was renamed the Signal Security Agency in 1943, and in September 1945, became the Army Security Agency . [ 1 ] For most of the war it was headquartered at Arlington Hall (former campus of Arlington Hall Junior College for Women), on Arlington Boulevard in Arlington, Virginia , across the ...
Dec. 16—Mylan Park Elementary's Girls Who Code Club visited Charleston Monday for "Country Roads Codes Day at the Capitol." While there, these girls spoke to legislators and visitors about the ...
On 1 January 1977, the United States Army Intelligence and Security Command (INSCOM) was organized at Arlington Hall Station, Virginia, to provide the U.S. Army with a single organization for conducting multi-discipline intelligence, security operations, and electronic warfare at the level above corps.
the suburbs—a boy at the wheel, three girls in the back—were buying drugs when a black man walked up to the car and shot the boy in the head. These incidents, coming within days of each other, contributed to the public’s im-pression that violent crime in the streets was out of control. In fact, much of the violence
A young girl in Utah is thinking outside of the (crayon) box! Clearfield resident Rosili Olson, 12, used her crayons last year when she was 11 to draw a playground she imagined would be better ...