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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

One of the Second World War’s most fascinating stories is that of the Allied codebreakers, who deciphered a vast number of German secret messages by decrypting their ingenious ciphering machine, the ...

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) -- In just a few days, a Pittsburgh woman will be celebrating a major milestone; she'll be 100-years-old! Julia Parsons has committed much of her life to her family, service, and ...

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 ...

Machine Enigma and its coding system were designed and patented for both civil and military service by a German engineer Arthur Scherbius in February 1918. It was a cipher machine based on rotating ...