Code Girls Ww2

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The Code Girls were a group of women who worked as code breakers and cryptanalysts during World War II. They were recruited from many backgrounds and were selected because of their math, problem-solving and logical thinking skills. These girls played a major role in deciphering messages and breaking enemy codes during the war. These girls were just normal people living their lives and going to college when they were asked to join the WAAF to help with cryptanalysis.

During World War 2 there were many jobs that played a big part in fighting and ending the war. Nurses, pilots, soldiers, and many more, one job that has not been talked about up until recently is codebreakers. Though at first the codebreakers, like many of the jobs during the war, …show more content…
As the war was brewing, government officials searched for people to work as code breakers, but many men were being shipped out to help fight in the war, and there also were not many men that wanted the job because the battlefield was where heroes were born; those who worked behind the scenes could say little about their confidence (Smithsonian). They didn't start pushing for military intelligence until after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. With all the men being shipped out, the government turned to an abundant resource that, due to sexist stereotypes of the day, were assumed to excel at such “boring” tasks : women. Smithsonian. The. WAAF began as a sister section of the auxiliary territorial service and by the time the war had started in September 1939 they had not yet completed the transition into independence in 1939 the RAF formed WAAF with the goal of recruiting women to fill roles that could be filled by men or women(Bletchley Park). So in an attempt to find women to take their job, there would be navy letters sent to colleges trying to recruit young women to come and join them. For example, in the book written by Liza Mundy Code Girls, it says that Comstock, the president of Radcliffe College, received a letter from U.S. Navy Admiral Leigh Noyes. In the

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