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

by Liza Mundy

Several people did a service to the women by sharing notes from their own earlier projects. Mary Carpenter wrote a wonderful piece for the Wellesley alumnae magazine and, bless her, saved her notes, which she gave me. She has no idea how many times I reread them. Curt Dalton interviewed the women of Sugar Camp for his own excellent book, and generously provided the audiotapes. These are priceless records. Kerry Feduk at South Carolina ETV went to great lengths to locate and reproduce the full uncut interview with the late Frances Steen Suddeth Josephson, portions of which appear on their South Carolina’s Greatest Generation DVD. Lieutenant Colonel Mike Bigelow from the U.S. Army Intelligence and Security Command History Office shared information on Arlington Hall as well as the oral histories conducted with WACs by Karen Kovach, who also met with me. Regina Akers, naval historian in the Histories and Archives Division at the Naval History and Heritage Command, shared her insights and guided me to those archives.