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.
Not exact matches
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).