UBoats

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U-Boats

• By
• Sam DiPasquale, Mitch McCloskey, Kirsten Miller,
  Casey Judge

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U-110

• The U-110s weapons were torpedoes.
• The battle of May 9th, 1941 belonged to the Royal
  Navy.
• The Royal Navy dropped depth charges and the
  U-110 was struck by them but was not completely
  destroyed.
• The U-110 was abandoned and then captured by the
  Royal Navy.
• David Balme and his crew tried to get the Enigma
  machine but failed, because the ship was sunk
  before it was found.
• The U-110 was then brought back to Iceland and
  sunk by the Royal Navy.

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Nazi U-Boat Codes Broken

• British sailors wanted to get an Enigma machine
  off the abandoned U-559 but failed, and they
  drowned before they succeeded, because they could
  not get the Enigma machine from the mount.
• The Navy began collecting Nazi codes from the
  ship, and seconds after the codes were on their
  ship, U-559 sunk.

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Enigma Today

• There are Enigma code machines that still exist
  today.
• The Enigma machines were used in a fictional
  American movie saying the Americans captured the
  first Enigma machine, when the British actually
  did, although the US actually ended everything by
  capturing the last U-505.
• The British are now annoyed by the fictional
  movie.
• Use an Enigma machine http//www.pbs.org/wgbh/nov
  a/decoding/virtwave.html

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What is Enigma?

• The Enigma machine was a Nazi coding system that
  only they could translate.
• Tons of other countries during WWII tried to
  figure out the coding system and/or tried to
  capture one of the German Enigma machines.
• It was not until close to the end of the war that
  Britain managed to capture the first Enigma code
  machine.

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Pictures
WWII ship
Enigma
Closed Enigma
David Balme