While efforts in Europe focused on Enigma, the outcome of the Pacific War hinged on intercepting and breaking Japanese naval ciphers—most notably the code known as JN-25. This code was a two-step ...

A World War Two codebreaker has recalled the "wonderful" moment she heard Winston Churchill speak during VE Day celebrations in London in 1945. Betty Hollingbery, 102, had been based at Bletchley ...

Newly released letters from GCHQ have shed light on the immediate aftermath of the Second World War for Britain's top secret codebreakers. They reveal how staff were granted unexpected holidays ...

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Alan Turing, legendary mathematician and WWII codebreaker, honored on new 50 pound note Turing is credited as one of the founding fathers of computing.

Julia Parsons, the United States Navy codebreaker whose top-secret unit of women helped to defeat the Germans and win World War II by decoding Nazi messages, has died at 104. Required to keep her ...

Object Details author Carlson, Elliot 1936- publisher United States Naval Institute Subject Rochefort, Joe 1900-1976 United States Navy Officers Notes First Naval Institute Press paperback edition ...

Wartime codebreaker and cryptanalyst, Joan Clarke, was the only woman to work with Alan Turing in the supremely secretive Hut 8 at ...

Two 101-year-old former codebreakers at Bletchley Park have reunited to accept an award ahead of the 80th anniversary of VE day. Kath Morris, from Neath, and Gwenfron Picken, from Port Talbot ...

Sir Dermot Turing, nephew of legendary British mathematician and World War II codebreaker Alan Turing, will speak at the Dayton International Peace Museum Thursday, May 8 in commemoration of the ...