ONE MINUTE HISTORY - October 30, 2022

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Published on October 30, 2022 9:38:49 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHkTPVIGGPI

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On this day, two sailors gave their lives to help crack a seemingly-impossible code. On October 30, 1942, the German submarine U-559 was attacked by a group of British destroyers in the Mediterranean. Having sustained critical damage, the U-boat’s crew quickly surfaced and immediately abandoned the ship, giving the British a rare opportunity to capture the sub’s Enigma machine, which Allied codebreakers had previously been unable to decipher. Three brave sailors entered U-559 and raced against time to find the Enigma machine and get out before it sunk. One sailor, Tommy Brown, managed to escape with the sub’s code book, but the other two, Colin Grazier and Lieutenant Anthony Fasson, could not escape before the U-boat sunk like a stone. Their sacrifice was not in vain, as the code book allowed the Allies to break the German U-boat enigma code and track German submarines for the rest of World War II.