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Joseph R. Desch

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m. 8 Jun 1935

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Name	Joseph R. Desch
Gender	Male
Birth^[1]^[2]	23 May 1907	Dayton (township), Montgomery, Ohio, United States
Marriage	8 Jun 1935	Dayton, Montgomery, Ohio, United StatesHoly Angels Roman Catholic Church to Dorothy Louise Brockman
Occupation^[1]	From 1938 to 1972	National Cash Register (NCR)
Occupation^[1]^[2]	3 Oct 1945	Earned the Medal of Merit from President Harry S Truman for work conducted during World War II, the highest civilian decoration of the United States
Census^[6]	1950	Oakwood, Montgomery, Ohio, United States
Education^[1]		Graduate Electrical Engineer BSEE University of Dayton
Death^[1]^[2]	3 Aug 1987	Dayton, Montgomery, Ohio, United Statesage 80
Burial^[1]	6 Aug 1987	Dayton (township), Montgomery, Ohio, United StatesCalvary Cemetery

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↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 ^1.3 ^1.4 ^1.5 Dayton Daily News. (Dayton, Montgomery, Ohio, United States)
p 36 col 4, 5 Aug 1987.

Obituary for Joseph R. Desch
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 ^2.2 Dayton Codebreakers http://daytoncodebreakers.org/brief/jrd/
accessed 12 Feb 2014.

Joseph R. Desch worked with the Navy cryptanalytic department to break German codes during World War II. This information was classified for many years but is now available.
Dayton Daily News. (Dayton, Montgomery, Ohio, United States).

See the 8 article series of reports by Jim DeBrosse in the Dayton Daily News,"Enigma: The Untold Story of NCR in World War II", 25 February through 4 March 2001 and letters to the editor and related articles about the story afterward.
Dayton Daily News. (Dayton, Montgomery, Ohio, United States)
B5, 19 Oct 2001.

WALK OF FAME HONORS INDUCTEES - Five selected for enduring impact
Author: Jim DeBrosse
National Security Agency http://www.nsa.gov.

Joseph Desch, Cryptologic Hall of Honor, 2011
Home > About NSA > Cryptologic Heritage > Cryptologic Hall of Honor > 2011
↑ United States. 1950 U.S. Census Population Schedule: a report of the seventeenth decennial census of the United States. (Washington, District of Columbia, United States: U.S. Govt. Printing Office, 1953).