German submarine U-559
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Type VIIC U-boat linked to the Enigma cipher breakthrough
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German submarine U-559
- Submarines
- World War II
German submarine U-559 was a Type VIIC U-boat built for Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine during World War II. Launched in 1941, it served with the 1st and 29th U-boat Flotillas and sank five ships. During its 1942 sinking in the Mediterranean Sea, British sailors captured cryptographic material that aided efforts to break the U-boat Enigma cipher.
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- Type
- Type VIIC U-boat
- Launched
- 8 January 1941
- Ships sunk
- Five
Sources and credits
Sources and credits
- Article
- German submarine U-559 (English Wikipedia)
- Wikidata
- Q549463
- Text
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