Julia Parsons, WW2 Navy codebreaker, dies at 104

Julia Parsons, WW2 Navy codebreaker, dies at 104

Julia Parsons, the United States Navy codebreaker whose top-secret unit of women helped to defeat the Germans and win World War II by decoding Nazi messages, has died at 104. Required to keep her work classified, Parsons even told her husband she was performing basic office work for the Navy, while secretly shaping the outcome of the war. Sunday TODAY’s Willie Geist remembers a life well lived.

1921-2025. One of the survivors of WAVES died at the age of 104. The Julia Parsons content. One of the cryptologists who sunk the Nazis appears first in Jornal i.