That 1944 capture would be the capture of the U-505, the first US naval boarding action in over 100 years. and yes, by then enigma was a mostly open book,
though Capt Gallery of the Guadacanal ( the escort carrier who's task group made the capture) didnt know that. However, let us not forget that while you
can break the enigma coding, unless you know what the code groups mean (ie, meet me at grid square x-y) it still doesnt do you much good. For that you really
want the codebooks. and both the 110 and the 505 captures gave them the keys to what the decoded messages MEANT, because the germans changed what meant what on
a fairly regular basis, one of the other common tricks in coding messages. this means that even if someone cracked both the cyper and the code, next week when
we go to code b that info is useless.
Just how much and where credit should go to the codebreakers and other dirty tricks departments is a hot enough topic that it qualifies for the politics and
other hot topics forum...
Hear that thunder rolling till it seems to split the sky?
That's every ship in Grayson's Navy taking up the cry-
NO QUARTER!!!
-- "No Quarter", by Echo's Children
though Capt Gallery of the Guadacanal ( the escort carrier who's task group made the capture) didnt know that. However, let us not forget that while you
can break the enigma coding, unless you know what the code groups mean (ie, meet me at grid square x-y) it still doesnt do you much good. For that you really
want the codebooks. and both the 110 and the 505 captures gave them the keys to what the decoded messages MEANT, because the germans changed what meant what on
a fairly regular basis, one of the other common tricks in coding messages. this means that even if someone cracked both the cyper and the code, next week when
we go to code b that info is useless.
Just how much and where credit should go to the codebreakers and other dirty tricks departments is a hot enough topic that it qualifies for the politics and
other hot topics forum...
Hear that thunder rolling till it seems to split the sky?
That's every ship in Grayson's Navy taking up the cry-
NO QUARTER!!!
-- "No Quarter", by Echo's Children