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Carol Sutton Lewis: To crack these codes, the US government turned not to expert cryptologists, not to military intelligence, but to a team of rookie codebreakers living in the Illinois countryside—

From Scientific American • Oct. 12, 2023

Some 350,000 women served as cryptologists, nurses, pilots, mechanics, office workers, drivers, telephone operators and in other roles to help with the war effort.

From Washington Post • Nov. 11, 2022

The code, based on the then-unwritten Navajo language, confounded Japanese military cryptologists and is credited with helping end the war.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 1, 2022

The code, based on the then-unwritten Navajo language, confounded Japanese military cryptologists.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 30, 2022

Where is the argument that the Executive use its resources to recruit cryptologists to write the code that it currently seeks and codes it will certainly need for future technology.

From New York Times • Feb. 22, 2016