Capturing the enigma codes which changed the course of WWII

Name: Capturing the enigma codes which changed the course of WWII
Uploaded: 2011-05-10T21:54:04.000Z
Description: Even at the age of 90, former Lt Commander of the Royal Navy, David Balme can still remember the day his boarding party captured a German U-boat in 1941.

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Even at the age of 90, former Lt Commander of the Royal Navy, David Balme, from Lymington in Hampshire, can still remember the day his boarding party captured a German U-boat in 1941.

On board were documents vital to saving thousands of allied lives and the cracking of the secret German Enigma codes.

Steve Humphrey reports.

10 May 2011