Cracked Commmunication: The Secret Code Breaking Women

Coast Guard SPARS, ca. 1943. U.S. Coast Guard.

"An Army of filing clerks, stenographers, office managers, telephone operators, and chauffeurs had become essential, and it was scarcely less than criminal to recruit these from needed manpower when great numbers of highly qualified women were available."

-General Dwight D. Eisenhower ​​​​​​​

SPARS enlistment poster: It's a Woman's War Too, John Falter, Naval History and Heritage Command, 1942. ​​​​​​​