Who Broke the Wartime Codes?

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A DARING RAID It is spring 1941 in the midst of World War II 1939 1945 At a secret location in the United Kingdom thousands of men and women are working desperately to intercept and understand the wireless messages transmitted every day by the German armed forces The Germans use a secret code Enigma to protect the information in their messages Breaking this code allows the Allies to know what the Germans are planning it is invaluable information However it is also very difficult to do RAIDS The British code-breakers need to crack the German navy’s codes because the German U-boats submarines are a deadly threat to Allied merchant ships in the Atlantic Ocean One of the code-breakers comes up with a plan to seize the settings sheets and one of the machines used to generate the code an Enigma machine These trophies would give them the clues they desperately need In May 1941 in a highly secret operation the Royal Navy manages to capture a German weather ship and seizes its settings sheets They sink the weather ship to avoid letting the Germans find out that the setting sheets have been taken Then only a few days later British destroyers force a U boat U-110 to surface Believing the U-boat to be sinking the commander does not destroy his Enigma machine or its codes They too are seized by the British