Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers of World War II

Author Liza Mundy highlights an inspiring group of women during World War II.

To mark Women’s History Month, listen to the amazing story of the Code Girls, as told by bestselling author and journalist Liza Mundy. Thousands of talented women were secretly recruited and trained during the war to become code breakers for the US Army and Navy. Working tirelessly at two codebreaking centers in the DC area, these women cracked code that provided critical intelligence information in the European and Pacific Theaters. Mundy interviewed surviving code girls and did extensive archival research to bring this untold story into the spotlight.

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Chrissy Gregg

Chrissy Gregg is the Director of Distance Learning at The National WWII Museum in New Orleans. She has been with the Museum since 2011 an...
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