Cracking one of the most complicated cipher devices ever created -- the Enigma machine -- may not have been what Britain's Mavis Batey envisioned when she studied the German romantic poets at ...

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — A global organization of engineers on Tuesday honored the three Poles who broke the German Enigma cipher codes and helped end World War II. J. Roberto de Marca, head of the ...

The Enigma machine was Nazi Germany’s most powerful weapon of secrecy. But behind closed doors, a handful of codebreakers ...

Alan Turing, a crack code-breaker and visionary mathematician who was convicted under Victorian-era homophobic laws, will be the face of Britain's new £50 note. Alan Turing, a crack code-breaker and ...

SO THEY HAVE DOZENS OF ENIGMA MACHINES. STUDENTS PACKED THE UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT GREENSBURG THIS WEEK, ALL TO HEAR FROM JULIA PARSONS. SHE SHE DECODED NAZI MESSAGES AND HELPED WIN WORLD WAR TWO ...

In the dark days of World War II, the secretive staff at a large building on Nebraska Avenue NW in Washington kept a scoreboard of its success. Each time a German U-boat was sunk by the U.S. Navy, ...

Hidden wartime footage of a secret World War II code-breaking site in Southern England has been discovered. The footage is of Whaddon Hall in Buckinghamshire, a secret site connected to the famous ...

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 ...

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.

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