The secret letters -- Introduction: "Your country needs you, young ladies" -- Part I. "In the event of total war women will be needed" -- Twenty-eight acres of girls -- "This is a man's size job, but ...
The recently published Code Girls by Liza Mundy tells the extraordinary story of the 11,000 women who worked for the U.S. Army and Navy as code breakers during World War II. They were recruited from ...
Julia Parsons, a U.S. Navy code breaker during World War II who was among the last survivors of a top-secret team of women that unscrambled messages to and from German U-boats, died on April 18 in ...