Mrs. Fawcett was still in her teens when she received a letter from a friend in February 1940, in the early months of the war. In 2014, Mrs. Fawcett returned to Bletchley Park for the opening of a museum honoring the lives and work of the code-breakers. Cheers erupted among the staff at Bletchley Park, but their celebration remained private. Mrs. Fawcett, who dropped the final letter in her first name, studied at a school called Miss Ironside’s and was a promising ballet dancer until she grew too tall. Along with everyone else at Bletchley Park, she agreed to comply with Britain’s Official Secrets Act, which imposed a lifetime prohibition on revealing any code-breaking activities.

Source: Washington Post May 28, 2016 22:33 UTC