UK intelligence agency GCHQ has celebrated its centenary year by releasing emulators for famous code cipher and code breakers used in World War II. Last week, GCHQ said on Twitter that the public can ...

ST. PAUL, Minn. (Tribune News Service) — Thanks to a group of World War II code breakers, St. Paul will be cemented in history as one of the birthplaces of modern computing technology this week. Born ...

A World War II code breaker who helped hunt down Nazi U-boats turns 100 on Tuesday and will be honored with a parade past her house in Pittsburgh. Julia Parsons, who served in the Women Accepted for ...

Imagine your mom, or your grandmother, maybe even your great-grandmother, with a secret past. Perhaps you know that she’s lived through some major historical events like World War II. Now imagine ...

BLETCHLEY PARK, England -- During World War II, the best brains in Britain cracked Germany's encrypted secrets but never broke their own code of silence. Now gray-haired and using walking sticks and ...

If you don't know of Mavis Batey, you should. Her work cracking the Enigma machine's coded messages was crucial to the success of D-Day landings during WWII. Journalist Bonnie Burton writes about ...

Julia Parsons with her service photo. Pittsburgh-native Julia Parsons wasn’t able to talk about her work code-breaking German messages during World War II for decades because her work was top secret.

Julia Parsons knows how to keep a secret. She was tight-lipped about one for more than 50 years. Parsons, 99, of Forest Hills, was a code-breaker in World War II. She served in the U.S. Navy’s WAVES ...

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Julia worked to break the Nazi code used to encrypt German U Boat messages traffic. Julia Parsons kept the secret of her World War II military service for nearly 50 years. A U.S. Navy WAVE, Julia ...

Julia Parsons, a Navy code-breaker in World War II, turned 100 on Tuesday. Birthday wishes could be heard from a mile away. A parade of police cars blaring sirens and honking horns made their way past ...

Editor's note: This story was updated on Sept. 7, 2021 to reflect Jeuel Bannister Esmacher's alma mater. Jeuel Bannister Esmacher, 97, kept for decades the secret of her role in America’s World War II ...