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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ST. PAUL, Minn. (Tribune News Service) — Thanks to a group of World War II code breakers, St. Paul will be cemented in history as one of the birthplaces of modern computing technology this week. Born ...

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, ...

Anne Seeley of South Yarmouth was able to keep a big secret for many years. She kept that secret along with 11,000 other American women who helped American military forces defeat the Japanese during ...

Editor's note: This story was updated on Sept. 7, 2021 to reflect Jeuel Bannister Esmacher's alma mater. Jeuel Bannister Esmacher, 97, kept for decades the secret of her role in America’s World War II ...

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I recently read “The Rose Code” by Kate Quinn. Based on real people and events, Quinn tells a fictionalized account of the code breakers working at Bletchley Park during World War II. I thoroughly ...

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 ...