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M-138-A Cipher Device

1940, US Army

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The US Army widely used portable and secure strip cipher systems like this during WWII. A flat version of the M-94, it allowed soldiers to easily arrange alphabet strips to cipher and decipher medium security messages at low cost.

M-138-A cipher device, US, 1940 

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Code/Cipher Machine