Their achievements were immense: they cracked a crucial Japanese code, which gave the U.S. Running early IBM computers and poring over reams of encrypted enemy messages, they worked tirelessly in a pair of overheated makeshift code-breaking centers in Washington, DC, and Arlington, Virginia, from 1942 to 1945. While their brothers, boyfriends, and husbands took up arms, these women went to the nation’s capital with sharpened pencils–and even sharper minds–taking on highly demanding top secret work, involving complex math and linguistics. Recruited from settings as diverse as elite women’s colleges and small Southern towns, more than ten-thousand young American women served as codebreakers for the U.S. THE RIVETING, UNTOLD STORY OF THE BRAVE YOUNG AMERICAN WOMEN WHO CRACKED GERMAN AND JAPANESE CODE TO HELP WIN WORLD WAR II!
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |