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Animation: How Three Men You Probably Never Heard of Helped End WWII | Short Film Showcase


dawn 30th of october 1942 a periscope
and the outline of a submarine are
spotted by a Royal Air Force patrol
aircraft in the eastern Mediterranean
this sighting will be a vital turning
point at Bletchley Park for 10
devastating months the code breakers
have been working under a complete
blackout of u-boat communications the
German Navy have introduced a new layer
of encryption to the Enigma machine a
fourth rotor
a Gemma’s batard and three other
warships are on the scene by 10 a.m. and
spend the next 10 hours hunting and
deadly charging the u-boat
night has fallen when the submarine is
finally forced to surface after
sustaining serious damage chaotic scenes
unfold as the enemy crew start to
abandon ship
no meu boat could contain vital
intelligence which could be utilized by
the Allies Chani fasten the first
lieutenant on petard an Able Seaman :
Grazia immediately leap into the sea and
swim through a mass of fleeing u-boat
men towards the you 559 they are
followed by naffy canteen assistant
Tommy brown Gordon but fastened and
crazy report the submarine climbing down
the conning tower into the blackness
below
time is running out for the men who are
frantically collecting the priceless
books and documents on the uber
whilst the u-boat is gradually filling
with water the two men had been said
nygma treasures two Brown who after
exploring the engine and control room
has positioned himself on the u-boats
conning tower abandon ship ship round
screens
and plunges into the dark waters to be
rescued by the boat at that moment the
ill-fated u-boat suddenly takes in an
enormous amount of water and rapidly
sinks taking Turney fastened and calling
Grazia with it
bodies are fastened and Grazia would
never recovered almost certainly they
drowned trapped in the sinking submarine
the demand for intelligence was never
more closely linked to individual
sacrifice but the two men did not die in
vain just three weeks later the
documents taken from the u 559 including
the u-boat short signal and weather
signal code books arrived at Bletchley
Park this pinch provided Bletchley Park
curb breakers with a priceless tool to
help break the fall rotor enigma within
an hour of breaking shark the u-boat
code 15 uber positions were identified
and Bletchley Park was able to read
naval traffic and crack Enigma codes for
the remainder of the war this enabled
the Apple T to reroute the vital convoys
to and from the USA saving thousands of
tons of shipping and countless lives
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