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Actor Zehra Fazal on Wellesley Codebreakers.
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Academic Video Online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cipher and telegraph codes.
- Women in war.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (5 minutes)
- Place of Publication:
- [Place of publication not identified] : Look What SHE Did!, 2019.
- Language Note:
- In English.
- System Details:
- video file
- Summary:
- Zehra Fazal tells the story of a band of Wellesley seniors who secretly became codebreakers in WWII, credited with shortening the war by at least a year. When asked what they were doing in the Department of Defense they were told to say, "Sharpening pencils and emptying trash cans." No one doubted it. Check out this clandestine tale about these brilliant, brave young women.
- Notes:
- Title from resource description page (viewed April 15, 2024).
- Part of the metadata in this record was created by AI.
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