The Unsung Heroine Who Cracked Japan’s Code to Target Admiral Yamamoto

In the shadows of Washington’s Nebraska Avenue Annex, America’s hidden army of women fought a silent war with mathematics and machines. This film follows the WAVES codebreakers—from secret recruitment and sleepless shifts at roaring “Bombe” machines to breakthroughs on JN-25 that shaped Midway, Leyte Gulf, Iwo Jima, and the interception that doomed Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto. Guided by figures like Agnes Meyer Driscoll, Grace Hopper, and unsung analysts whose names never reached the record, the story traces innovation under crushing pressure, the moral weight of reading enemies’ last messages, and the erasure that followed victory. Along the way, we reveal how their pattern-finding, probability, and “human-error” insights foreshadowed modern computer science—and how their decrypts influenced the endgame in 1945. A cinematic, historically grounded portrait of secrecy, sacrifice, and the invisible hands that steered the Pacific War. #ww2 #documentary #history #codebreakers #usnavy This video is all about: world war 2 documentary, ww2 history, ww2 stories, waves codebreakers, agnes meyer driscoll, grace hopper, elizabeth friedman, joseph rochefort, admiral nimitz, isoroku yamamoto, jn-25, jn-25c, nebraska avenue annex, us navy cryptanalysis, bombe machines, battle of midway, leyte gulf, iwo jima, operation ketsu-go, pacific war intelligence, signals intelligence, cryptanalysis, codebreaking history, p-38 intercept, admiral halsey, admiral spruance, kurita, ozawa, women in ww2, military history Chapters: 00:00 Basement War at Dawn 01:28 The Quiet Recruitment 03:12 Nebraska Avenue Opens 05:06 Machines and Method 07:24 Innovators in Uniform 09:45 First Lives Saved 12:02 Cracking JN-25c 14:30 Hunting Yamamoto 17:05 Midway’s Hidden Edge 19:42 Leyte in Real Time 22:11 The Human Cost 24:36 Reading 1945’s Plans 27:10 Hiroshima in Messages 29:22 Surrender in Code 31:05 Sent Home, Erased 33:18 Declassification and Memory 35:07 The Legacy in Tech 37:40 Ghosts in Our Machines Subscribe for more untold war stories—and ring the bell so you never miss the quiet heroes history tried to hide.