Secret UK women's codecracking army gets belated recognition for WWII work

At least 77 women from the women-only Newnham College were drafted to Bletchley Park, the code-breaking centre north of London, during the conflict. It was there that mathematician Alan Turing decoded messages encrypted by the Nazis' Enigma machine, in particular those sent by German U-boats submarines in the North Atlantic. Historians widely acknowledge that Bletchley played a key role in bringing down Adolf Hitler. But the story of the Cambridge women has only recently been revealed thanks...