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He said an Air Force pilot, Navy ship driver, cryptologist or cyber expert may be needed as battlefields become more challenging and high tech.

Carol Sutton Lewis: To crack these codes, the US government turned not to expert cryptologists, not to military intelligence, but to a team of rookie codebreakers living in the Illinois countryside—

Art director Antonio Alcalá, whose previous stamp projects featured skateboard art, women cryptologists of World War II and hip-hop, felt Meléndez’s style reflected a “spirit of Mexican culture” that suited the assignment.

Army veteran, a cryptologist whose job was to crack enemy codes while stationed in Northern Africa and Europe during World War II.

Now a spry 101 and living in Pittsburgh, Parsons described the vital mission she and other female cryptologists performed 80 years ago in deciphering enemy messages.