What It Was Really Like Being A World War II Codebreaker
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By Natasha Lavender/Feb. 13, 2021 10:17 pm EDT
The image of a codebreaker trying to unscramble a seemingly meaningless string of numbers and letters in the dim light of a bunker comes from World War II. But during and after the war, those people we now understand as some of the most important behind-the-scenes heroes of the war effort were as secret as the ciphers they were trying to decrypt. It's only recently that we've started to uncover what it was really like being a World War II codebreaker.