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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.
About 7,500 women worked in Bletchley Park, the central site for British cryptanalysts during World War II.Women constituted roughly 75% of the workforce there. [1] While women were overwhelmingly under-represented in high-level work such as cryptanalysis, they were employed in large numbers in other important areas, including as operators of cryptographic and communications machinery ...
Susan Gray, Millie, Lucy, and Jean worked together at Bletchley Park to decipher German military codes for the British military, during World War II.After a brief introduction of the four women at Bletchley during the war, the series begins in 1952, seven years after the war's end, when Susan, Millie, Lucy, and Jean have returned to their ordinary lives.
These 12 books show the diversity of U.S. veterans, including women on the frontlines, unsung Black soldiers and Navajo code talkers.
Patricia Davies (née Owtram; born 19 June 1923) is an English former codebreaker who served as a special duties linguist in the Women’s Royal Naval Service during World War II. She and her younger sister Jean Argles are often referred to as "The Codebreaking Sisters". [1]
Alan Stripp, worked on Japanese codes (author of Codebreaker in the Far East) Sadie Stuart; Joy Tamblin (Director of the Women's Royal Air Force) Derek Taunt, arrived in Bletchley Park in August 1941, worked in Hut 6 (mathematician, later bursar of Jesus College, Cambridge) Telford Taylor, US Army (Counsel for the Prosecution at the Nuremberg ...
Elizebeth Smith Friedman (August 26, 1892 – October 31, 1980) was an American cryptanalyst and author who deciphered enemy codes in both World Wars and helped to solve international smuggling cases during Prohibition.
Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers of World War II documents the work of thousands of female American codebreakers during World War II, [7] including top analysts such as Elizebeth Friedman and Agnes Driscoll, lesser known but outstanding contributors like Genevieve Grotjan Feinstein and Ann Zeilinger Caracristi, and many others.