30th October 1942: German Enigma machine ciphers retrieved from submarine U-559 by British sailors

Published: Oct. 30, 2023, 3:05 a.m.

b'A British party of Lieutenant Francis Fasson, Able Seaman Colin Grazier, and canteen assistant Tommy Brown, boarded the slowly-sinking submarine after it had been damaged by depth charges and retrieved the Enigma codebooks and all the current settings for the U-boat ...'