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 ...

Ruth Mirsky, who turns 100 today, was a code breaker in the U.S. Navy. “It was very hush-hush,” she remembered. By James Barron Good morning. It’s Wednesday. We’ll meet a World War II code breaker who ...

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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 — ...

SO THEY HAVE DOZENS OF ENIGMA MACHINES. STUDENTS PACKED THE UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT GREENSBURG THIS WEEK, ALL TO HEAR FROM JULIA PARSONS. SHE SHE DECODED NAZI MESSAGES AND HELPED WIN WORLD WAR TWO ...

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 ...