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When war came, Irene Brion, like many other young Americans, male and female, was eager to do her part. Enlisting as a recruit in the Women's Auxilliary Army Corps, the forerunner of the more familiar Women's Army Corps (WAC). From her home in the small town of Friendship, in western New York, Private Brion traveled to Fort Devens, Massachusetts, where she learned how to be a soldier, and then to Camp Carson, outside Colorado Springs, where she learned on the job how to be a dental technician. The "needs of the service" ultimately resulted in her being trained as a cryptanalyst. Following training at a secret base in Vint Hill, Virginia, she was posted to New Guinea where she was part of MacArthur's GHQ (General Headquarters). When the war moved on, Irene and her sister cryptanalysts moved too, this time to the Philippines. Here, it was discovered that their clean laundry was being wrapped in pages from an important Japanese code book. By tracking down the Filipina laundresses, Signal Corps personnel were able to recover a significant number of pages from the code book. This gave the intrepid band of WAC codebreakers vital new work to fill out the remaining weeks of the war. Reader

Author

Brion, Irene

Publisher

Presidio Press

Published

1997

Language

EN

ISBN

9780891416333

Subjects

History, Biography, Memoir

Rating

5 / 5 (3 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14