Secret UK girls’s code-cracking military will get belated recognition for WWII work | EUROtoday

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During World War II, dozens of girls Cambridge University college students labored across the clock in full secrecy to crack Nazi codes however solely now are the unsung heroes getting recognition. At least 77 girls from the women-only Newnham College had been drafted to Bletchley Park, the code-breaking centre north of London broadly acknowledged to have performed a key function in bringing down Adolf Hitler. “They lived with the anonymity of it. And nobody was ever able to say thank you,” says Sally Waugh, a former Newnham scholar and instructor whose analysis uncovered the story of the Cambridge girls.