How Women Won WWII: AABBA and the Art of Codebreaking
Shakespeare and Al Capone. What could possibly be a link between these two men who were born centuries apart? A master codebreaker named Elizebeth Smith Friedman. If her name doesn’t sound familiar, t...
17 Aug 33min
How Women Won WWII: Sabotage and a Jewish Spymaster
It's time to return to the art of espionage. During World War II, Prime Minister Winston Churchill understood that boots on the ground were only one piece of the puzzle to drive out the enemy. In orde...
10 Aug 30min
How Women Won WWII: The Booming Work of Women Scientists
In a previous episode of our series, we had a conversation about the combined efforts of the Allied science community to beat Germany in the race to understand and build atomic weapons. It was a team ...
3 Aug 31min
How Women Won WWII: British Wrens at War
Let’s head to Great Britain and learn about a military organization that recruited women into the war effort all across the country. Women volunteered in great numbers and, throughout the war, thousan...
27 Jul 29min
How Women Won WWII: By the Glow of Radium
How did the United States successfully produce and detonate the first atomic bomb? That success happened through a combination of random events and intricately planned schemes that fed into the speedi...
20 Jul 34min
How Women Won WWII: A Starlette Spies for France with Josephine Baker
She was a larger than life woman who utilized her fame and charm to secretly gather intel for the Allies during World War II. She put herself in danger, fought for freedom, saved countless lives… and ...
13 Jul 31min
How Women Won WWII: The Women of the Secret Cities
The Manhattan Project. It was a top-secret program ran for three war-filled years and employed over 120 thousand people. Most of those people had no idea that they were working on one of the most powe...
6 Jul 31min
How Women Won WWII: Rosie the Riveter Was Just the Beginning
Over the next few weeks, we’ll explore the incredibly varied and complex roles women stepped into during World War II. No, they weren’t GIs. They didn’t land at the beach on Normandy on D-Day, or face...
29 Jun 31min
