Headline Nov. 24/ ''' THESE CRYPTOGRAPHERS THESIS '''

''' THESE CRYPTOGRAPHERS 

THESIS '''

FOR THE HONOR OF THE WORLD STUDENTS SOCIETY  : What have Yee all attempted or done, in the service of-

Humanity? your respective countries, your societies, your schools, your colleges, or your universities? or and even for your own self-esteem? 

Merium? Rabo? Haleema? Saima? Dee? Eman? Armeen?  Seher? Sara?  Lakhshmi? Aqsa, Shahbano? Tooba, Zainab? Zilli? Nina? 

Hussain? Ali? Shahzaib? Marwin? Bilal?Vishnu? Jordan? Toby? Wajahat?  Faraz? Mustafa? Ahsen? Salar? Zaeem? Danyial? Umair? Omer?.....And the students of the world?   

IN THE FALL OF 1941 mysterious letters appeared in the mailboxes of a select group of young women attending the Seven Sisters Colleges.

Chosen for their aptitude in such subjects as math, English, history, foreign languages and astronomy, the women were invited to meet one-on-one with senior professors.

At Wellesley, the students were asked unusual questions : Did they like doing crossword puzzles, and did they have imminent wedding plans?

Those women who gave the right answers -yes, and no -were asked to sign confidentiality agreements and join a hush-hush  government project. 

With war raging in Europe, the United States Navy had been staffing up its cryptanalysis division for several years, but this was a new recruiting strategy. 

The female undergrads were offered campus training in code breaking, with the promise of  government civilian jobs in Washington upon graduation.

In the months after the bombing of Pearl Harbour and America's entry into World War II, such a patriotic summons became more urgent. Not only did the Navy reach out for women from a wider range colleges, but Army began ramping up its own code breaking unit.

After Army brass were chastised for competing with the Navy for the same female campus talent pool, the Army switched tactics and sought out small-town school teachers eager to participate in the war effort and take part in a big-city adventure.

IN LIZA MUNDY'S  prodigiously researched and engrossing new book, ''Code Girls : 

The Untold Story of the American Woman Code Breakers of World War II,''  she 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.

In an era when history is being updated to reflect the math-and-science accomplishments of 20th-century women with such accounts as  Margot Lee Shetterly's  ''Hidden Figures : 

The American Dream and the Untold Story of the  Black Women Mathematicians  Who Helped Win the Space  Race,  '' Mandy's book offers valuable insights and information about those unsung women who made crucial contributions during wartime.

    

Their work was often  mind-numbing tedious and frustrating as the women spent  12-hour days and seven days a week in steamy offices staring at incomprehensible columns of numbers and letters and trying to decipher patterns.

They learned to recognize ciphers   -where one letter is substituted for another letter is substituted for another letter or number    -and to interpret  ''additives,''  extra number thrown in to stump prying eyes.

They built and operated ''bombs'' machines to decode the thousands of German messages sent out via complex Enigma machine, work that was done in conjunction with Bletchley Park.

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.

Thanks to their efforts in retrieving and passing along vital information about enemy battle plans and the whereabouts of Japanese vessels, the American military was able to sink enemy supply ships, shoot down enemy planes and blunt attacks on American targets.

This was emotionally fraught work since the women occasionally learned, in advance, that the Japanese had targeted ships in regions where their loved ones were serving.

As Mundy writes : ''Some of the women broke messages warning about attacks before they happened but were helpless to avert them,''

In the run-up to the D-Day landing in Normandy, the women were also charged with creating phony coded American messages to deceive the Germans about the site of the invasion. 

The Honor and Serving of the latest Operational Research on History and accomplishments continues. The World Students Society thanks researcher and author Meryl Gordon.

With respectful dedication to the Students, Professors and Teachers of the world. See Ya all on !WOW!  -the World Students Society and Twitter-!E-WOW!  -the Ecosystem 2011:

''' Code Breakers '''

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