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"Code girls : the untold story of the American women code breakers of World War II" (2017) https://g.co/kgs/CBSxQv https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_Girls

"Hidden Figures" (2016) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hidden_Figures https://g.co/kgs/m2fFvN

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Also, the British Women Royal Naval Service serving in Western Approaches Tactical Unit during WWII, who developed a great number of extremely effective tactics for fighting U-boats, as well as effectively reverse engineering bits and pieces of German technology that had never been physically seen by analyzing the tactics of their employment.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Approaches_Tactical_Un...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVet82IUAqQ

I loved Hidden Figures, but even more so I loved hearing stories of little girls who saw it and spent the next few days playing "Scientist". Showing history inspires the future.

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