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- During the run up to the 70th anniversary of the capture of the Enigma codebooks from German U-boat U-110, Hugh was commissioned by Bletchley Park to supply the text and photos for an exhibition describing the capture.
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During the run up to the 70th anniversary of the capture of the Enigma codebooks from German U-boat U-110, Hugh was commissioned by Bletchley Park to supply the text and photos for an exhibition describing the capture.
Before the U-Boat sank suddenly the men recovered numerous documents that turned out to be Enigma code books that were invaluable to the code breakers at Bletchley Park.
- The Enigma Machine
- The Fourth Rotor
- The Sinking of U-559 and The Ultimate Sacrifice
The German Enigma machine allowed the Kriegsmarine, especially the U-boat fleet, to communicate completely in secret. Operators fed a desired message into the machine, got a completely garbled series of letters back, and gave the result to a Morse Code operator. British and others intercepting signals could listen all they wanted. Without an Enigma...
The Enigma machine worked with a series of rotors. If an operator put the rotors in the right position, the encoding and decoding worked. Each rotor supported 26 positions. Initially, the machine used three rotors for 17,576 potential combinations. When Allied convoys consistently avoided Nazi patrol in 1942, the Kriegsmarine ordered the fourth rot...
On October 30, 1942, a British plane spotted the German U-boat U-559 on the surface. Nearly every destroyer commander and crew in the Royal Navy was under pressure to capture Enigma materials. So when the plane called in the sighting, five destroyers immediately went on the attack. The U-boat never suffered a direct hit, but it did take damage from...
Jan 1, 2001 · During the run up to the 70th anniversary of the capture of the Enigma codebooks from German U-boat U-110, Hugh was commissioned by Bletchley Park to supply the text and photos for an exhibition describing the capture.
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- Hugh Sebag-Montefiore
Oct 30, 2017 · The code books for Enigma were written in water-soluble ink, but the German submariners on U-559 had failed to pour water on them before evacuating.
- Dominic Selwood
ENIGMA: THE BATTLE FOR THE CODE. THE PLOT It is now well known that breaking the German Enigma code helped the Allies to win the Second World War. Churchill referred to the Bletchley Park codebreakers as the geese who layed golden eggs and never cackled.
Oct 23, 2017 · The naval officer from Jedburgh rescued vital code books from a sinking German U-boat. First Lieutenant Fasson was drowned, along with a colleague, during the mission on October 30, 1942. But the books which he'd passed to safety before the submarine went down were key to breaking the Nazi's Enigma code and turn the tide of the war.
