[Answer] 1. German U-Boats almost brought Britain to her knees in WW2 through the sinking of huge numbers of ships, but the sinking of just one U-Boat was to prove pivotal in the battle for the seas. What did the British recover from the U-559?

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...1. Plans for an atom bomb 2. One hundred tons of gold 3. A prototype atom bomb being taken to Japan 4. A code machine U-Boats got their instructions from Germany by radio, but the transmissions were coded and uncoded by the Enigma machines each carried. For many years these codes had been unbreakable. Then, on October 30 1942, a Sunderland flying boat spotted U-559 off the Nile Delta in the Mediterranean. HMS Hero, a destroyer, was dispatched to the area and forced the U-Boat to dive. For 16 hours Hero carried out depth charge attacks that damaged U-559's pressure hull. Forced to surface after dark, she was confronted by the British submarine HMS Petard, which fired on her with Oerlikon cannons. The crew abandoned the 559, but failed to destroy the Enigma machine, or scuttle their craft. The Enigma machine was recovered by the British sailors and the material taken to the code-breaking centre at Bletchley Park. This was a huge coup that enabled the allies to decode German radio transmissions. Note: If you think I have used the word "British" a lot in this question, it's because it was the Royal Navy that recovered the Enigma machine and not the US Navy, as the Hollywood film "U-571" (2000) would have us believe. The real U-571 was, in fact, a craft sunk off the coast of Ireland in 1944 by a Sunderland of the Royal Australian Air Force.

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A code machine:

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