Wilma Z. Davis, Date of Birth, Date of Death
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American codebreaker during World War II
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About Wilma Z. Davis
- Wilma Zimmerman Davis (31 March 1912 – 10 December 2001) was an early American codebreaker during World War II.
- She was a leading national cryptanalyst before and during World War II and the Vietnam War.
- She graduated with a degree in Mathematics from Bethany College and successfully completed navy correspondence course in cryptology.
- She began her career as a leading cryptanalyst which spanned over 30 years in the United States Army Signal Intelligence Service (SIS), a predecessor of the National Security Agency (NSA) in the 1930s.
- She was hired by William Friedman, who was a US cryptographer in the Army and led the research division of the Army’s Signal Intelligence in the 1930s.
- Wilma Davis worked as a cryptanalyst on the Italian, Japanese, Chinese, Vietnamese, and Russian problems.
- She also worked on the VENONA project.
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