Sentences with phrase «codebreakers during»

Recruited by the U.S. Army and Navy from small towns and elite colleges, more than ten thousand women served as codebreakers during World War II.

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Sidenote: I bet that the reason the British government knew women would make excellent codebreakers at Bletchley Park during World War II is because someone high up in the military happened to catch sight of a shawl knitting pattern and thought, «Whoever can decipher that shawl pattern could probably defeat Hitler.»
The film examines the life of Alan Turing, a codebreaker who is credited with breaking the German Enigma Code during WWII.
During his first trip to Comic - Con in July, Benedict Cumberbatch stopped to chat about his many brainy characters, from the detective he plays on the BBC's «Sherlock» and the World War II codebreaker Alan Turing, whom he portrays in the upcoming movie...
The large majority of the film deals with his time working for the British government at Bletchley Park during World War II as part of a team of codebreakers to crack the Enigma code.
THE 13TH MAN by Enio Rigolin An unlikely codebreaker is thrust into the role of a hero when code being sent through comic books during WWII.
Sources: William R. Plum, The Military Telegraph During the Civil War in the United States (1882); David Kahn, The Codebreakers: The Story of Secret Writing (1967).
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