Current Events #2
The Secret History of the Female Code Breakers Who Helped Defeat the Nazis
In the article, "The secret history of the female code breakers who helped defeat the nazis stated, "In November 1941, not long before the attack on Pearl Harbor, a handful of letters began materializing in student mailboxes at America’s top women’s colleges. The messages were cryptic and brief, inviting their mystified recipients to private interviews in which the students might be asked only a couple of similarly cryptic questions: Did they like crossword puzzles, and were they engaged to be married? The correct answer to the first question was yes; the desired answer to the second was no. For more than a year, the U.S. Navy had been quietly recruiting male intelligence officers: specifically, code breakers, or “cryptanalysts" from elite colleges and universities, and now it was embarking on the same experiment with women. Educated women were wanted for the war effort, and with all possible haste." This showed that America was in desperate measure to find people to can break the code in order to know secret information, it just so happens that those code breaker happened to be women.
"In early meetings, the chosen women were issued manila envelopes containing a brief introduction to the arcane history of codes and ciphers, along with numbered problem sets they were to complete every week. In the late spring of 1942, the first wave of women recruited by the Navy finished their secret courses and turned in their final problem sets. Those who had stuck with the course and answered enough problems correctly—less than half of those recruited—arrived in fresh cotton dresses, prepared to start their duties, working in the Navy’s hot and cramped downtown Washington, D.C., headquarters." Women were ready to begin their jobs by working in the Washington D.C. headquarters.
My thoughts on this article is that, it's interesting to know that female code breakers were an influence on how the Nazis were defeated and they used things that I am learning in school, code.
In the article, "The secret history of the female code breakers who helped defeat the nazis stated, "In November 1941, not long before the attack on Pearl Harbor, a handful of letters began materializing in student mailboxes at America’s top women’s colleges. The messages were cryptic and brief, inviting their mystified recipients to private interviews in which the students might be asked only a couple of similarly cryptic questions: Did they like crossword puzzles, and were they engaged to be married? The correct answer to the first question was yes; the desired answer to the second was no. For more than a year, the U.S. Navy had been quietly recruiting male intelligence officers: specifically, code breakers, or “cryptanalysts" from elite colleges and universities, and now it was embarking on the same experiment with women. Educated women were wanted for the war effort, and with all possible haste." This showed that America was in desperate measure to find people to can break the code in order to know secret information, it just so happens that those code breaker happened to be women.
"In early meetings, the chosen women were issued manila envelopes containing a brief introduction to the arcane history of codes and ciphers, along with numbered problem sets they were to complete every week. In the late spring of 1942, the first wave of women recruited by the Navy finished their secret courses and turned in their final problem sets. Those who had stuck with the course and answered enough problems correctly—less than half of those recruited—arrived in fresh cotton dresses, prepared to start their duties, working in the Navy’s hot and cramped downtown Washington, D.C., headquarters." Women were ready to begin their jobs by working in the Washington D.C. headquarters.
My thoughts on this article is that, it's interesting to know that female code breakers were an influence on how the Nazis were defeated and they used things that I am learning in school, code.
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