Ruth Mirsky, who turns 100 today, was a code breaker in the U.S. Navy. “It was very hush-hush,” she remembered. By James Barron Good morning. It’s Wednesday. We’ll meet a World War II code breaker who ...

Editor's note: This story was updated on Sept. 7, 2021 to reflect Jeuel Bannister Esmacher's alma mater. Jeuel Bannister Esmacher, 97, kept for decades the secret of her role in America’s World War II ...

Every year on Nov. 11, we honor the brave soldiers who have served our nation with Veterans Day. There have been myriad books written about their experiences, many of which have made the USA TODAY ...

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 ...

SO THEY HAVE DOZENS OF ENIGMA MACHINES. STUDENTS PACKED THE UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT GREENSBURG THIS WEEK, ALL TO HEAR FROM JULIA PARSONS. SHE SHE DECODED NAZI MESSAGES AND HELPED WIN WORLD WAR TWO ...