One of the United Kingdom's oldest surviving World War II code-breakers has passed away at the age of 101, the Women's Royal Army Corps Association (WRAC) reported on Tuesday. Charlotte "Betty" Webb ...

Sworn to secrecy about the goings-on at Britain’s storied World War II decryption operation, she only later recounted the efforts to crack German signals. By Eve Sampson Betty Webb, who as a young ...

In plain English she was a code-breaker, a spy-buster, one of scores of civilians who worked tirelessly to safeguard the nation from saboteurs and enemy agents bent on disrupting the war effort. Even ...

ENGLAND – The Queen of England herself, Queen Elizabeth II granted a Royal pardon for internationally acclaimed British codebreaker and computer scientist Alan Turing. Turing took his own life in 1954 ...

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 ...

Julia Parsons, a U.S. Navy code breaker during World War II who was among the last survivors of a top-secret team of women that unscrambled messages to and from German U-boats, died on April 18 in ...

There is never a good time for war. But for Julia Parsons, the outbreak of World War II came at the right time. In 1942, Parsons was a senior at Carnegie Tech — soon to be Carnegie Mellon University — ...

Julia Parsons, a U.S. Navy code-breaker during World War II who kept a military secret about her assignment for decades, including from her Army husband, Don, died April 18 A longtime resident of ...