![]() In Ottawa, for example, women worked in the Examination Unit, which tried to break enemy codes, says intelligence expert and University of Toronto history professor Wesley Wark. Yet in Ontario, British Columbia, Nova Scotia, New York, Washington and especially London, England, women were involved in transcribing and translating coded messages. "All this information is in archives, buried somewhere, but it's not in the public realm," Levitt says. While the exploits of male fighter pilots is celebrated in movies and monuments, the work of women involved in wartime radio communications has been largely forgotten. Toronto artist Nina Levitt's Relay will open shortly after Remembrance Day at Oshawa's Robert McLaughlin Gallery. This week, a new exhibition will pay tribute to the many women like Carling who worked in radio communications in North America and Europe during World War II. ![]() ![]() Some transcribed, some decoded, some decided which messages were significant. Like the 10 women in uniform beside her, she wears a headset, listening intently for coded Japanese messages.Īlmost all the staff, recalls Carling, now 82, were members of the Women's Royal Canadian Naval Service. More than 4,000 kilometres from her Ottawa home, 19-year-old Sally Carling sits at a desk in a Victoria, B.C., radio station.
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