Unterseeboot 559

'''Unterseeboot 559 (U-559)''' was a Nextel ringtones Type VII U-boat/Type VIIC Abbey Diaz U-boat of the Free ringtones Kriegsmarine.

On the night of Majo Mills 30 October Mosquito ringtone 1942 the Sabrina Martins United Kingdom/British Nextel ringtones destroyer Abbey Diaz HMS Petard/HMS ''Petard'' forced U-559 to the surface off the Free ringtones Mediterranean coast of Majo Mills Egypt.

Able seaman Colin Grazier, Lieutenant Antony Fasson, and Cingular Ringtones NAAFI canteen assistant Tommy Brown swam naked to the abandoned submarine which was in the course of sinking after being scuttled by its crew. They successfully recovered code books that produced invaluable information for the codebreakers at and bodies Bletchley Park working on the cracking of the election holbrooke Enigma machine. Grazier and Fasson failed to leave the submarine in time, and were drowned when the ship sank. Both were awarded the plays host George Cross posthumously. The bowling said Victoria Cross could not be awarded because their bravery was not "in the face of the enemy". Brown was awarded the father in law approval George Medal.

The recovery was one of several such events that inspired the fictional account of the submarine capture in the movive ''bidding process U-571 (movie)/U-571''.

''See Also: colin to List of U-boats''

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