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A new exhibition will tell the stories of the women who secretly worked for MI5 during World War Two to mark the 85th ...
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 ...
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 ...
2019-12-28T16:45:22-05:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/80c/20191228165305003_hd.jpgJournalist Liza Mundy talked about her book, Code Girls: The Untold Story of the ...
Julia Parsons, of Forest Hills, was a 20-year-old college student at Carnegie Tech in December 1941."The news of Pearl Harbor came over the radio, and I was so shocked. I had no idea where Pearl ...
Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers of World War II by Liza Mundy, Hachette Books, 416 pages If you were accomplishing remarkable things in an unusual field of expertise, ...
Ruth Mirsky, who turns 100 today, was a code breaker in the U.S. Navy. “It was very hush-hush,” she remembered. By James Barron Good morning. It’s Wednesday. We’ll meet a World War II code breaker who ...
Before 150,000 soldiers landed on the beaches of Normandy for the military operation that would later be known as D-Day, few people outside the military knew what was in the works. One of the rare ...
Every year on Nov. 11, we honor the brave soldiers who have served our nation with Veterans Day. There have been myriad books written about their experiences, many of which have made the USA TODAY ...
CHESTERFIELD COUNTY, Va. -- A Chesterfield County post office is being renamed after World War II code breaker and former Midlothian resident Dorothy Braden Bruce. Congresswoman Abigail Spanberger ...
2019-12-28T16:45:22-05:00https://ximage.c-spanvideo.org ...