What It Was Really Like Being A World War II Codebreaker Public Domain
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.