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Julia Parsons holds a World War II-era photo of herself. (Courtesy Veterans Breakfast Club in Pittsburgh)
1 Mar 2021
A World War II code breaker who helped hunt down Nazi U-boats turns 100 on Tuesday and will be honored with a parade past her house in Pittsburgh.
Julia Parsons, who served in the Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service, or Navy WAVES, said her work was aided enormously by the sheer arrogance of the German High Command in believing that the allies couldn t possibly break their vaunted Enigma code despite warnings from their own U-Boat commanders.
She told Military.com of deciphering messages from a U-boat commander who surfaced his submarine to contact his controllers. The gist of his message was, Every time I surface, within a half hour there s an airplane overhead. I think they re reading our code, Parsons said.
Opinion: What Biden and Pelosi can learn from a 1941-1942 presidential commission CNN 2/23/2021 Opinion by Thomas Balcerski © Stefani Reynolds-Pool/Getty Images WASHINGTON, DC - FEBRUARY 05: U.S. President Joe Biden (L) meets with House Democratic leaders, including Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) (R), and committee chairs to discuss the coronavirus relief legislation in the Oval Office at the White House February 5, 2021 in Washington, DC. In an effort to generate bipartisan support for his legislation, Biden met earlier in the week with Republican and Democratic senators to discuss his administration s $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief plan. (Photo by Stefani Reynolds-Pool/Getty Images)
by Tom Lewis
The Decision to Drop the Bomb
This book, aimed at the 75
th anniversary of the Atomic Bombings and the end of World War II in the Pacific, is really out of its time and place. Author Tom Lewis (
The Empire Strikes South) wants to reframe the bombings, picturing them in a positive light. His whole message is really in the title – the bombs “saved” millions of people. There was a time for this argument, in the middle 1990s when the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum in the United States sought to put on display the
Enola Gay B-29 aircraft that had dropped the A-Bomb on Hiroshima. Then historians, veterans, politicians, and anti-nuclear activists fought over the terrain of both the act of displaying that airplane and the propriety of using the bomb. Lewis missed that debate. Today, he would have done better to stay out of it.
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