• WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service) built and operated the U.S. Navy Cryptanalytic Bombe from 1943 to the end of World War II to solve the German 4-rotor Enigma
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    WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service) built and operated the U.S. Navy Cryptanalytic Bombe from 1943 to the end of World War II to solve the German 4-rotor Enigma. Credit: US Government courtesy of the National Cryptologic Museum

     

  • WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service) built and operated the U.S. Navy Cryptanalytic Bombe from 1943 to the end of World War II to solve the German 4-rotor Enigma

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