My grandmother was a code girl during WWII. It was her best kept secret until 2017.
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What an awesome woman.
Wow! Sensational
Why so long before it was declassified?
‟Loose lips sink ships”.
Yor grandmother really lived by this mantra!
What cool new secret did she start in 2017?
Tht’s so cool! Why would you keep that a secret?
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So the embossed seal across her neck didn’t tip you off?
Who snitched?
Amazing job that she did. Imagine having to keep that secret for so long. Never got the recognition they deserved.
Very cool. I’d love to go back in time and work at Bletchley Park.
Just read “D-Day Girls” by Sarah Rose, which has to deal with women trained by the British to parachute behind the lines to help the French Resistance. The book talked in detail about the code girls they had on staff, who could recognize the “knuckle” of an agent transmitting in Morse code. Every agent had this sort of unconscious pattern to the dots and dashes that was as unique as a fingerprint. A couple of code girls warned the higher-ups that one agent was starting to sound different on his transmissions, but they were ignored. The agent was transmitting under duress because he’d been caught, and was trying to put a warning into his message by changing his pattern. Because they ignored people like your grandma, the Gestapo was able to roll up an entire spy network in occupied France. You ought to be proud, people like your grandma did some really important work.
Wait, your grandma was Ray Bolger?
I’m confused is it a dude
Is “code girl” code for “man in drag”?
Might’ve been okay to let onto this before 2017? Could it have hurt national security in the 1990s?
Just finished reading “The Rose Code.” This is so amazing, the book is a testament to just how seriously the code breakers took their secrecy oath and how hard they worked round the clock.
“Loose lips……”
is your grandma still with us? if so, do this test. send her a letter and send yourself a letter send the letters to the same address (her address) and see how long her letter takes to reach her vs your own letter. my grandpa used to work for a famous laboratory in New Mexico. his letters took about a week more than mine to arrive.
In Australia they had Z-force and W-force, they had their own nurses, clerical, engineers ect… and still to this day even as a nurse they haven’t talked about what they did.
Which side?