WWII code breaker buried in Nebraska with U.K. military honors

OMAHA, NEBRASKA – A 92-year-old woman has been buried in Nebraska with British military honors for a secret that she held for decades: her World War II service as a code breaker of German intelligence communications. The Union Jack was draped over Jean Briggs Watters' casket during her burial Monday, the Omaha World-Herald reported. The tribute honored Watters for her role decoding for a top-secret military program led by British mathematician Alan Turing, who was the subject of the 2014 Oscar-winning film "The Imitation Game." Watters was among about 10,000 people, mostly women, who participated in the Allied effort to crack German communication codes throughout the war. She operated an electro-mechanical machine, known as a "bombe," to decipher signals the German armed forces sent out from its sophisticated Enigma encryption machines.