Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers of World War II (2024)

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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.

Code Girls is the story of Dot Brayden, Carolyn Ruth, Wilma Berryman and a whole host of other women recruited into the Army Signal Intelligence Service at Arlington Hall. Compiled from interviews, research, and personal letters, Code Girls documents the struggles and accomplishments of the women codebreakers of WWII.

“This was an important watershed for women joining the military,” Mundy said. During the interview process, they would be asked just two questions: do you like crossword puzzles and are you engaged to be married.

A codebreaker operates a U.S. Navy cryptanalytic machine to help decode enemy messages during World War II.

These women continually broke the ever-changing and increasingly complex systems used by the Axis Powers to shroud their messages in secrecy, providing vital intelligence to the U.S. Army and Navy that allowed them to not only keep many American troops out of harm's way but ensure the country emerged from war ...

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Set in 1952, "The Bletchley Circle" tells of four women who have returned to normal lives after working at Bletchley Park -- the site where the Germans' infamous "enigma cypher" was broken by British mathematicians and code breakers during World War II.

The Woman Who Smashed Codes is the story of Elizebeth Friedman, the mother of modern cryptoanalysis and cryptography. Elizebeth's accomplishments were forgotten in part because she was the loving wife of William Friedman, a brilliant cryptanalyst in his own right.

Book overview. A powerful, no-nonsense guide for women that provides them the keys to unlock a fulfilling life. Every woman lives by a code, whether she realizes it or not. It informs how she treats others and herself, how much she expects of herself, and how far she is willing to go in order to find success.

With the help of captured Enigma material, and Turing's work in developing a technique he called 'Banburismus', the naval Enigma messages were able to be read from 1941.

Who broke the Enigma code first? ›

The Enigma code was first broken by the Poles, under the leadership of mathematician Marian Rejewski, in the early 1930s. In 1939, with the growing likelihood of a German invasion, the Poles turned their information over to the British, who set up a secret code-breaking group known as Ultra, under mathematician Alan M.

Consequently, in 1940 and 1941, the army recruited Comanche, Meskwaki, Chippewa, and Oneida language speakers to train as code talkers; they later added eight Hopi speakers. In April 1942, the Marine Corps trained twenty-nine Navajo men in combat and radio communications.

Intelligence from decrypted Enigma messages, code-named "ULTRA," was extremely secret, and very few people knew about it. While the Germans never found out the Allies could solve their codes, they suspected it as their ability to sink Allied shipping slipped dramatically in 1942.

The Navajo Code Was Never Broken

Despite the thousands of messages that Code Talkers sent during WWII, their code was never broken by the Japanese or the Germans, who were very good at decryption.