PortandTerminal.com, December 5, 2020 BERLIN – German divers searching the Baltic Sea for discarded fishing nets have stumbled upon a rare Enigma cipher machine used by the Nazi military during World War Two which they believe was thrown overboard from a scuttled submarine. The legendary code machine was discovered last month during a search for abandoned fishing nets in the …
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VIDEO: WW2 mine blown up off Scottish coast
PortandTerminal.com, December 3, 2020 A Second World War mine found by divers off the coast of Scotland has been detonated by the Royal Navy. EDINBURGH – An 80-year-old German mine discovered in the Firth of Clyde on Scotland’s west coast has been blown up. The mine was trawled by a marine research vessel and was found to contain 770 lbs …
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PortandTerminal.com, August 23, 2019 At the beginning of the Second World War, the island nation of Britain faced the grim possibility that it might be starved into defeat because of the German naval blockade of the country. Food and fuel were strictly rationed in Great Britain in WW2 as there was a real chance that the Nazi’s blockade of the …
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