December 2015

A story full of heroism and tragedy is now told at Bletchley Park in a new mini exhibition.

The Petard Pinch was the seizure of vital codebooks from a sinking U-Boat in which two young men drowned. But they didn’t die in vain - the intelligence treasures they captured were extremely valuable. They allowed the Codebreakers at Bletchley Park to break back into the naval Enigma network Shark, after a devastating ten month blackout.

Image: Petard Crew 1942 ©The Petard Association

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