Julia Mary Parsons

Julia Mary Parsons

American Navy cryptanalyst (1921–2025)

📍 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania USA

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Julia Mary Parsons was an American Navy cryptanalyst during World War II, a WAVE and member of a secret all-women team of codebreakers at the Naval Communications Annex, Washington D.C., now nicknamed the Code Girls, which decrypted enemy naval radio messages. Parsons' section, codenamed "Shark" worked on German Navy U-boat communications encrypted with the Enigma machine. According to a veteran's group, until her death at the age of 104, she was the last surviving U.S. Navy World War II codebreaker. She was the subject of a local TV documentary, honored by a field appearance with the Pittsbur

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