October 2022

ANNAPOLIS JUNCTION, MD — The U.S. Postal Service honored the work of the Women Cryptologists of World War II with a first-day-of-issue ceremony for the Forever stamp at the National Cryptologic Museum.
“During World War II, some 11,000 women labored day and night, helping to process and decipher an endless stream of enemy military messages,” said Jakki Krage Strako, the Postal Service’s chief commerce and business solutions officer, who served as the dedicating official for the stamp event.
“Their work was both frustrating and exhilarating (sometimes simultaneously) —and one of the conflict’s best-kept secrets,” she said. “With this stamp, the U.S. Postal Service honors all of the women cryptologists of World War II, whose service played an inestimable role in the Allied victory.”
The surprise attack on Pearl Harbor made it clear that an enormous and immediate increase in the number of cryptologists was essential. With young men enlisting to serve overseas and more needed every day, the armed forces looked to women. Many women cryptologists were civilians recruited while still in college or working as schoolteachers. By the end of the war, women cryptologists numbered around 7,000 in the Army and about 4,000 in the Navy — more than half of all U.S. cryptologists.
Their service played a significant role in the Allied victory. Women cryptologists deciphered Japanese fleet communications, helped prevent German U-boats from sinking vital cargo ships, and worked to break the encryption systems that revealed Japanese shipping routes and diplomatic messages. They built high-speed machines to break encrypted German messages, intercepted enemy communications, and ensured that encrypted U.S. messages were secure and error-free — an early form of cybersecurity.
Sworn to secrecy — under penalty of treason — the women cryptologists of World War II remained silent about their crucial and far-reaching contributions for decades. Today, they are widely

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