In a suburban Brisbane garage, young women decoded radio transmissions that changed the course of World War II. For the first time, their top-secret work on a panicked Japanese cable about a new type of weapon can be revealed.
Not long after an American atomic bomb exploded over Hiroshima, a horrified Japanese officer radioed back to Imperial Navy headquarters in Tokyo to report what he had witnessed.
The never-before-released cable – declassified for the ABC by the Australian Signals Directorate – was decrypted, revealing the Japanese officer's account of what happened when three B-29s flew over Hiroshima that morning. It was given a beige name to disguise its thorny work handling the most sensitive military communications.
Joyce Grace was dispatched to Bonegilla near the Victoria-NSW border for a signals course, training in morse code and wireless messaging."My friend Joy," Coral remembers wistfully. "She was tall, her hair was straight, a no-nonsense person. Joy and I seemed to just migrate together into doing things. And look, we've been friends all these years."
The entrance to Nyrambla in Ascot, Brisbane — suburban mansion turned war base. From left, Joyce Grace, Helen Kenny and Betty Paterson approaching the guard.
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