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1. www.bbc.com › future › articleThe female code-breakers who were left out of history books - BBC

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   Oct 10, 2017 · Over the last 100 years, women have had significant, high-level roles in breaking secret codes – from Nazi ciphers to the secret messages of Al Capone’s gang.

2. kids.nationalgeographic.com › history › articleThe women codebreakers of World War II - National Geographic Kids

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   If the answer to the first was yes and the second no, the women were offered the chance to train for a secret career: breaking codes for the United States Army or Navy. Just two years before,...

3. bletchleypark.org.uk › who-were-the-codebreakersWho were the Codebreakers? - Bletchley Park

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   Feb 23, 2022 · Nearly 10,000 people worked in the wider Bletchley Park organisation. At first GC&CS followed its pre-war recruitment policy and looked for ‘Men and women of a professor type’ through contacts at Oxford and Cambridge universities. Many famous Codebreakers including Alan Turing, Gordon Welchman and Bill Tutte were found this way.

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5. www.politico.com › magazine › storyThe Secret History of the Female Code Breakers Who Helped ...

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   Oct 10, 2017 · The code breakers of World War II advanced what is known as signals intelligence—reading the coded transmissions of enemies, as well as (sometimes) of allies. They laid the groundwork for the...

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6. www.goodreads.com › book › showUnbreakable: The Spies Who Cracked the Nazis' Secret Code

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   Oct 25, 2022 · Unbreakable is the true story of the codebreakers, spies, and navy men who cracked the Nazis’ infamous Enigma encryption machine and turned the tide of World War II. As the Germans waged a brutal war across Europe, details of every Nazi plan, every attack, every troop movement were sent over radio.

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7. www.historyhit.com › the-codebreakers-who-workedThe Codebreakers: Who Worked at Bletchley Park During World ...

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   Sep 20, 2018 · By the end of the Second World War in 1945 nearly 10,000 people worked at Bletchley Park, an enormous increase on the 130-strong staff that composed the Government Code and Cypher School in 1939. In many ways it was one of the most remarkable groups ever assembled.

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   How did codebreakers break codes and ciphers?

   • Teams that were often mostly women also broke codes and ciphers themselves, sometimes using complex technology and equipment to help. The codebreakers studied long strings of letters and numbers, looking for patterns that might reveal a message hidden in sentences that looked like nonsense.

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   What did a Codebreaker do in WW2?

   • A codebreaker operates a U.S. Navy cryptanalytic machine to help decode enemy messages during World War II. One chilly afternoon in November 1941, Ann White found an odd letter in her mailbox from an astronomy professor who wanted to meet.

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   What did codebreakers study?

   • The codebreakers studied long strings of letters and numbers, looking for patterns that might reveal a message hidden in sentences that looked like nonsense. The work required a strong understanding of math since many ciphers replace letters with numbers and then hide the original message with equations.

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   Do women break secret codes?

   • Over the last 100 years, women have had significant, high-level roles in breaking secret codes – from Nazi ciphers to the secret messages of Al Capone’s gang – but their contribution is only just emerging. Picture this. In 1917, the United States is just entering World War One.

   The female code-breakers who were left out of history books - BBC

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   Is Unbreakable a true story?

   • Unbreakable is the true story of the codebreakers, spies, and navy men who cracked the Nazis’ infamous Enigma encryption machine. As the Germans waged a brutal war across Europe, details of every Nazi plan, every attack, every troop movement were sent over radio. Unbreakable is the true story of how these individuals turned the tide of World War II.

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   Why was Elizebeth a great code breaker?

   • It was here that the light of Elizebeth’s talent began to shine. She would go on to become one of the greatest code-breakers in history, as would her husband William – who coined the word “cryptanalysis”. But although William’s achievements have been well-documented, Elizebeth’s were largely marginalised for decades.

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9. www.theiet.org › membership › library-and-archivesSecret Machines - a history of British Code-Breaking during ...

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   World War II Code-Breakers. In the summer of 1939, with war looming, British cryptanalysts of the Government Code and Cipher School were evacuated to Bletchley Park, a Victorian mansion located about 50 miles from London in Buckinghamshire. It was headed by a naval officer, Commander Edward Travis.