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Joan Winifred Joslin (née Glover, 11 March 1923 – 8 February 2020) was a British codebreaker at Bletchley Park during World War II. Joan Glover was born on 11 March 1923. She was ordered to Bletchley Park on 24 December 1941. After six weeks learning to use Hollerith machines for code-breaking, she worked during the war to decrypt messages from Japanese airplanes and German ships. Her work helped locate and sink the German battleship Scharnhorst. Joslin died in Essex on 8 February 2020, at the age of 96.