The Petard Pinch
Dec 17, 2015•4 min
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Episode description
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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