The Ultimate PINCH

In the Spring of 1941 one of the most significant British intelligence coups took place in the bleak North Atlantic as a group of Royal Navy sailors seized Germany’s most vital secret – an Enigma cipher machine. Captain Peter Hore tells the remarkable story of its capture.

David Balme (ringed) on his sub-lieutenant’s course in 1940.

SECOND WORLD WAR

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