Arlington Hall

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The main building of Arlington Hall (circa 1943)

Arlington Hall is a complex of buildings in Arlington County in the US state of Virginia and was a central military service during World War II , which successfully dealt with the deciphering of enemy communications.

history

SIS employee at Arlington Hall (ca.1943)

From 1927 it was an educational institution for young women under the name Arlington Hall Junior College for Women . A few months after the United States entered World War II , Arlington Hall was requisitioned by the US Army for the Signal Intelligence Service (SIS) and the Signal Security Agency (SSA) on June 10, 1942 , and was now used militarily as Arlington Hall Station . These were secret US military units that were entrusted with the cryptanalysis of enemy messages, mainly German, Italian and Japanese , during World War II .

Even after the war and the integration of SIS and SSA into the Army Security Agency (ASA) founded on September 15, 1945 , the headquarters remained in Arlington Hall until 1989, before the headquarters was relocated to Fort Belvoir in neighboring Fairfax County .

Since then, Arlington Hall has served the United States Department of State as a training center and is the seat of the Army National Guard Readiness Center and thus the headquarters of the Army National Guard (ARNG), the Army Department of the United States' National Guard .

literature

  • US Army Intelligence and Security Command: FORTY ONE AND STRONG: ARLINGTON HALL STATION . Cryptologia , 9: 4, pp. 306-310, 1985. doi: 10.1080 / 0161-118591860049
  • Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS): ARLINGTON HALL STATION . PDF; 0.3 MB Accessed: December 20, 2016.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Arlington Hall Station, 4000 Arlington Boulevard, Arlington, Arlington County, VA Library of Congress . Retrieved December 20, 2016.

Coordinates: 38 ° 52 ′ 3 ″  N , 77 ° 6 ′ 13 ″  W.