Dayton Codebreaker Highlights Pride in Contribution to WWII

Creator

Jeremy Dobbins, Wright State University - Main Campus
Will Davis, Wright State University - Main CampusFollow

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Creation Date

5-27-2015

Keywords

Harshman, John; United States. Army; Enigma Machine (Cryptography); Germany; WWII; World War, 1939-1945

Disciplines

Arts and Humanities | History | Radio

Description

For some who serve in the military, their work is top secret, and the contribution they make to national security may never be publicly known. The WYSO Veterans' Voices series tells the story of Army veteran John Harshman who, unbeknownst to him, helped crack the code of the German Enigma machines. Those machines were used to encrypt secret messages during World War II.

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More information about this story can be found at http://wyso.org/post/dayton-codebreaker-highlights-pride-contribution-wwii.

Document Type

Multimedia