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77 #women #BletchleyPark codebreakers from #WWII revealed for the first time.
Many of them took the secret to their graves.
"Whenever one of the graduates, Jane Monroe β a mathematician who worked in cryptanalysis in Hut 6 at Bletchley Park, deciphering the coded messages sent on German Enigma machines around the clock β was asked what she did during the war, she would always say: βOh, I made the tea.β"
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/17/cambridge-newnham-college-alumnae-bletchley-park-codebreakers#womenintech #womenshistorymonth
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