Some Truth, Good Submarine Sequences

Rating: Null/10 (5 October 2000)

While it's true the British actually cracked the German Enigma cipher, American forces did capture a U-boat intact (U-505) during the war. The U-505's code books and cipher machine were captured by the USS Guadalcanal during 1944. Some tension ensued following this "victory" because the American and British high commands were afraid the Germans would learn of the capture and change the code. Captain Gallery of the Guadalcanal, not being in the ULTRA "loop", was unaware that the Enigma code had already been broken and therefore didn't realize what damage this could do. But the Germans believed the sub to be lost with all hands. Let's have a movie about this.