Leader of boarding party which recovered an Enigma machine dead at 95

[gary]

The U.K's Telegraph has an obituary today (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/12078997/Lieutenant-Commander-David-Balme-obituary.html) for English Lieutenant
Commander David Balme, born October 1 1920 who died on January 3 2016.

Balme led a boarding party which captured the Enigma coding machine (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enigma_machine) from
German U-boat U-110 during the Battle of Convoy OB318 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convoy_OB_318)in May 1941.



Article here -
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/12078997/Lieutenant-Commander-David-Balme-obituary.html

[I.C.D]

What a great day for MI6 and Alan Turing and the war in general because from that machine they could brake other German codes as well

:thumbsup: