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Dot Braden describes how–like thousands of female schoolteachers–she took the train to Washington, D.C., to take a job with the War Department, with no idea that she would be soon be breaking enemy codes
Code Girl Dot Braden describes her arrival in wartime Washington, DC
Code Girl Dorothy Ramale talks about the night when the men at her college were rounded up and put on a bus to join the war
Code Girl Dorothy Ramale talks about how her father always said his three girls were as good as any boy
Code Girl Betty Bemis Robarts describes how she soldered rotors for the bombe machines that broke the German Enigma cipher.
Code Girl Jane Case Tuttle talks about the Navy’s vision requirements—and changing the Navy’s mind
Code Girl Betty Bemis Robarts talks about the vow of secrecy the women took
Code Girl Anne Barus Seeley talks about recovering additives for the Japanese Navy Fleet Code, JN-25
Code Girl Anne Barus Seeley explains how she did the math to recover the additives
Code Girl Jane Case Tuttle talks about the patriotism that was everywhere during World War II
Code Girl Nancy Dobson Titcomb talks about what it felt like when the Japanese captured so many Pacific Islands
Code Girl Nancy Dobson Titcomb talks about the messages she broke