Capturing the enigma codes which changed the course of WWII

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Even at the age of 90, former Lt Commander of the Royal Navy, David Balme, from Lymington in Hampshire, can still remember the day his boarding party captured a German U-boat in 1941.

On board were documents vital to saving thousands of allied lives and the cracking of the secret German Enigma codes.

Steve Humphrey reports.

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