Women Code Breakers: The Best Kept Secret of WWII

Who were the silent women whose top-secret work helped shorten World War II? Meet the female code breakers.

Embedded within military intelligence and communications, wartime cryptography was a man’s world. But women did much more for secret intelligence during World War II than resupply coffee and shuffle papers.

Even beyond nursing and manufacturing, women working top-secret jobs played an integral role in supporting the Allied effort. They helped shorten the length of the war, saving countless lives in the process.

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