On Sat, 11 Nov 2017 12:24:47 -0500
John Young <j...@pipeline.com> wrote:
> CODE GIRLS
code cunts - more cogs in american nazi war 'effort'.
> The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers of World War II
> By Liza Mundy
yep - list needed some more feminazi propaganda
>
> https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/06/books/review/liza-mundy-code-girls-world-war-ii.html
>
> Describes the experiences of several thousand
> American women who spent the war years in
> Washington, untangling the clandestine messages
> sent by the Japanese and German militaries and
> diplomatic corps. At a time when even
> well-educated women were not encouraged to have
> careers much less compete with men to
> demonstrate their mastery of arcane, technical
> skills this hiring frenzy represented a
> dramatic shift. The same social experiment was
> simultaneously unfolding on the other side of the
> Atlantic. The British debutantes and their
> middle-class peers recruited to work at the
> secret Bletchley Park code-breaking operation came to outnumber the
> men.
>
> Mundy’s narrative turns thrilling as she
> chronicles the eureka moments when the women
> succeed in cracking codes, relying on a mixture
> of mathematical expertise, memorization and occasional leaps of
> intuition. ...
>
> At the end of the war, virtually all of the
> female code breakers were given their walking
> papers and returned to civilian life. Only a few
> superstars were asked to stay on (among them Ann
> Caracristi, who went on to become the first
> female deputy director of the National Security Agency).
>
> For these accomplished and resourceful women, who
> had been given a heady taste of professional
> success, it was jarring to have to fight to be
> accepted to top graduate programs on the G.I.
> Bill or embark on traditional paths as wives and
> mothers. Warned not to reveal their secret
> wartime lives, many remained silent about their
> valuable service. Thanks to Mundy’s book, which
> deftly conveys both the puzzle-solving
> complexities and the emotion and drama of this era, their stories
> will live on.
>
>
