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To: marktwain
They could not produce submarines faster than the allies could sink them, especially as we had broken their Naval code.

For a really good movie about their naval code and the allies efforts to steal an Enigma encoding machine, see the 2000 movie U-571. Edge of your seat stuff. Historical knowledge.

17 posted on 07/12/2020 9:50:03 AM PDT by upchuck (D.Horowitz: America did not invent slavery, America ended it. Preserve the American way of life.)
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To: upchuck

Brits were upset about the U-571 movie, as they had already captured an enigma machine.


25 posted on 07/12/2020 10:09:23 AM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: upchuck

That movie’s complete crap. It’s a ripoff (right down to individual scenes) of the infinitely better “Das Boot”, mashed up with the actual capture (by the British) of an Enigma machine from the sinking U-110.

They could have told the *actual* story of the U-505 capture and made a far better film.


30 posted on 07/12/2020 10:36:59 AM PDT by M1903A1 ("We shed all that is good and virtuous for that which is shoddy and sleazy...and call it progress")
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