The US did capture one although I'm not aware of the actual circumstances (may have been similar to the movie i dont know?) - however the brishish had one already which they got when they captured U-110
The US captured one towards the end of the war in Europe, by then quite a few had already been captured by British forces and the decrypting of enigma signals was almost routine. A less well known fact is that the Polish managed to get hold of an Enigma device long before the war began and they handed that to the British after the Invasion of Poland.
For anyone interested in fictional accounts about Enigma and the Intelligence war I recommend 'Cryptonomicon' by Neal Stephenson, it isn't a film, but it should be.
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If anyone has a few hours to spare, Dersu Uzala is on the silver screen at 1800 on Wednesday in Edinburgh.
The new True grip was quite cool
the mountainman wouldn't feel out of place on here........
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bot a bad film
Great Thread!
Vanier has done a series of films in this vein including Loup, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXdM2XIHImg and other dog-sledding stuff.
May not be your cuppa tea, but I thought I would mention it just in case.
'Lost in the Pacific' with Lee Marvin very interesting film very outdoorsy and also about survival during the second world war about an Amercan and a Japanese soldier stuck on an Island in the Pacific!
