2nd Bat
Master sergeant
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Post by 2nd Bat on Oct 28, 2008 17:09:15 GMT -5
Graham Keeley in Barcelona
Sixteen crates locked in a dark store room in Madrid for more than 70 years hold the secret to how General Franco might have won the Spanish Civil War.
Inside the crates are Enigma code-making machines that Franco had bought from Nazi Germany and used to co-ordinate his troops who fought on fronts hundreds of miles apart.
The 26 machines were discovered this week by the Spanish daily newspaper El PaÃs, hidden in army headquarters since the Civil War ended in 1939, most still in perfect condition.../snip/
...The Madrid cache comprises commercial Enigma machines, invented in 1920, rather than the more effective and highly secret military version that the German army used so effectively during the war.
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Seff
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.30-06 - Turning Cover into Concealment since 1906
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Post by Seff on Oct 28, 2008 17:57:50 GMT -5
I'll let people know the difference between the commercial and military versions: The commercial had 16,900 possibilities for each letter to be. The military version had 159,000,000,000,000,000,000 possibilities for each letter (yes, a million million million).
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Cpl. Hicks
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Post by Cpl. Hicks on Oct 28, 2008 19:24:59 GMT -5
A mere slight difference.
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