Julia Parsons with her service photo. Pittsburgh-native Julia Parsons wasn’t able to talk about her work code-breaking German messages during World War II for decades because her work was top secret.

A plaque will be placed at a building on Minnehaha Avenue Thursday, recognizing the work of codebreakers and as one of the birthplaces of modern computers. During World War II, codebreakers were ...

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 ...

BLETCHLEY PARK, England -- During World War II, the best brains in Britain cracked Germany's encrypted secrets but never broke their own code of silence. Now gray-haired and using walking sticks and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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QUEEN ELIZABETH II unveiled a monument bearing the words "We also served" last week in honor of the hundreds of mathematicians and cryptographers who helped crack Nazi Germany's secret codes during ...

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 ...

LONDON (Reuters) – The Bank of England unveiled the design of a new banknote celebrating mathematician Alan Turing, who helped Britain win World War Two with his code-breaking skills but is believed ...

Second World War code-breaker Alan Turing has been given a posthumous royal pardon for a 61-year-old conviction for homosexual activity. Dr Turing, who was pivotal in breaking the Enigma code, ...