Mary Margery Body joined the intelligence services in 1940 and settled in Cheltenham to work at GCHQ.

A war hero who played a huge role in the cracking of the Enigma code will be honoured this weekend during a special Armed ...

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An "unsung" female Bletchley codebreaker has been honoured by a blue plaque for her part in breaking the German enigma code ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. World War II ended in Europe on May 8, 1945. However, the war would've probably lasted longer if it weren't for one mathematician ...

There were at least two major things that gave Britain’s codebreakers at Bletchley Park a headstart in breaking the German Enigma code machine. * A German spy defected before the war and gave the ...

The Enigma code was a fiendish cipher that took Alan Turing and his fellow codebreakers a herculean effort to crack. Yet experts say it would have crumbled in the face of modern computing. While ...