Post by Administrator on May 9, 2021 12:22:42 GMT
VIA: Western Approaches HQ - The Battle of the Atlantic Experience
80 Years Ago Today - The Secret Capture that Changed the Course of the War.
On May 9, 1941, the German submarines U110 and U201 were attacking a British convoy in the Atlantic south of Iceland.
U110 was forced to surface after being depth charged by HMS Braodway and was abandoned by her crew who thought that the submarine was sinking.
A boarding party from HMS Bulldog, led by Lieutenant D. Balme, boarded the submarine and carried off its code books, ciphers and a Naval Enigma machine.
The Enigma machine and the documents allowed the codebreakers at Bletchley Park to break the German Naval Enigma code, an intelligence breakthrough which changed the course of the war in the Atlantic.
80 Years Ago Today - The Secret Capture that Changed the Course of the War.
On May 9, 1941, the German submarines U110 and U201 were attacking a British convoy in the Atlantic south of Iceland.
U110 was forced to surface after being depth charged by HMS Braodway and was abandoned by her crew who thought that the submarine was sinking.
A boarding party from HMS Bulldog, led by Lieutenant D. Balme, boarded the submarine and carried off its code books, ciphers and a Naval Enigma machine.
The Enigma machine and the documents allowed the codebreakers at Bletchley Park to break the German Naval Enigma code, an intelligence breakthrough which changed the course of the war in the Atlantic.