I have a framed newspaper article where i'm photographed by a press photographer being pushed in a stroller by my grandfather down a sidewalk. I was one year old at the time. Everything else important in the house is in a fire box.
they first became a serious threat during WW1 but were continued into WW2. The german navy used the enigma machines to code their transmissions during WW2 and further increased the stealth factor, so not only did they not know where the boats were but they couldn't understand their communications. once the allies finally got their hands on one of the enigmas and broke the code, the u-boats started dropping like flies. this is a summary on the subject from a very casual enthusiast that gets his info from history channel and documentaries, so don't take all of it at my word. i'm sure others could give more details and in better quality! short version is, yes the u-boats were still very much a threat during WW2.
actually it was Marian Rejewski who initially broke into the concept, and in coordination with the French and British military intelligence (Alan Turing is one of the more famous people involved) broke the code entirely. the allies started capturing more code books and hardware from the Germans, and they slowly began to take back the seas.
Navajos were used to send messages the Japanese couldn’t break as their language has never been written down, only passed generation to generation.
In the European theater the Germans used a complex cypher machine called Enigma to send coded messages. Before Poland fell they had broken most of it and passed that knowledge to the French and British.
Later Germany upgraded the machines, but as Thaprky pointed out Turing and his crew deciphered the code to the point that it was joked that the Germans in the field should have just called Turing to get their instructions as it would be faster than using their own code machines.
And yes submarine warfare by the Germans started in WW1. But it was in WW2 that they came into their own as a global weapon. My Grandfather was lucky as merchant marine was one of the deadliest jobs in the war. Which is sort of ironic as my uncle died shortly after his pow camp was liberated. He had been a navigator on a reconnaissance plane. One of the safest jobs in the war.
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And nothing like complaining to your father about something and him telling you what it was like sleeping in gas masks in the underground while your neighborhood was being bombed.
I'm joking. I would grab my Pokemon cards, which might sound odd, but they're worth over 20,000 dollars, and I'd sell them, if I must [no I wouldn't... They are my prized possessions, I'd just walk out of the house with all my fangirl srufd]
Because I'm 14, and it's not quite yet my job to pay for a house lol..... And I would never let go of them. I'd have to be dead broke, and dying before I got rid of them.
ah I see. Well, there's always a college fund, lol. I can see how something that valuable would be special. I never got into the Pokemon craze so don't quite get the fascination.
It's just really fun, and this is going g to sound really cheesy but for lack of a better way to say it, Pokemon were always there when others won't.....
$20k?! wow that's a lot of cards, or a few very valuable ones! I know some of them really hold a lot of value. you're pretty young right? how did you stock up on that much at your age?
Well some old man gave me a bunch of Feb one and two cards..... For free. I don't think he understood that they were worth that much [probably a lot more I didn't even check all of tjem] but I also buy a LOT of Pokemon cards. I've spent over 300 on them. Two elite trainer boxes which was around 90, and a lot more....
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