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 — ...

LONDON (AP) — The Duchess of Cambridge has tried her hand at code-breaking as she opened a museum at Bletchley Park, Britain’s famed World War II deciphering center. Kate sat at a desk and succeeded ...

Sir James Alfred Ewing, one of history's true unsung heroes, died this week (Jan. 7) in 1935. Ewing ran the unparalleled code-cracking team that worked in "Room 40" (where the team started, but ...

BLETCHLEY PARK, England -- During World War II, the best brains in Britain cracked Germany's encrypted secrets but never broke their own code of silence. Now gray-haired and using walking sticks and ...

ENGLAND – The Queen of England herself, Queen Elizabeth II granted a Royal pardon for internationally acclaimed British codebreaker and computer scientist Alan Turing. Turing took his own life in 1954 ...

Ninety-nine-year-old Dorothy Braden Bruce kept a special secret for 70 years. Her husband of 62 years died in 2007, completely unaware of it. She had never told family and friends. She only divulged ...

Catharine Kingsley has always thought of herself as a veteran, even though she doesn't hold that official distinction. The 88-year-old Tulsan never wore a military uniform; she was never issued a gun.

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 ...

Private Molly Sherwell worked in espionage in WWII and died in enemy action. She is the first woman to be added to the Chinnor War Memorial, where she lived.