Joan Joslin
Joan Winifred Joslin (née Glover, born 11 March 1923)[1][2] was a codebreaker at Bletchley Park during World War II.[3][4][5]
Joslin was ordered to Bletchley Park on 24 December 1941.[3][4] After six weeks learning to use Hollerith machines for code-breaking, she worked during the war to decrypt messages from Japanese airplanes and German ships.[3][5] Her work helped locate and sink the German battleship Scharnhorst.[5]
She met her husband at her first day of work at the facility; they became engaged three years later, in 1944 and married after the war finished. Her cryptography work remained a secret until the mid-1970s.[3][4][5] Joslin was interviewed as part of the Bletchley Park Oral History Project in May 2014.[6]
References[]
- ^ Meet the female codebreakers of Bletchley Park
- ^ Joan Glover in the 1939 England and Wales Register
- ^ a b c d Bearne, Suzanne (24 July 2018), "Meet the female codebreakers of Bletchley Park", The Guardian
- ^ a b c Jones, Bryony (14 September 2015), Bletchley code-breaker: I wanted to shout 'War's over!' but couldn't, CNN
- ^ a b c d "We had to keep the war's end secret", The Telegraph, 31 May 2005
- ^ Bletchley Park: Miss Joan Winifred Glover (Joslin)
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