90130_ Report This Comment Date: March 29, 2006 11:55PM
Find this in a German U-boat, did you John?
Anonymous Report This Comment Date: March 30, 2006 01:31AM
This is an Enigma coding machine, used to send cyphered messages from the
U-Boats to their base during WWII
A message was recently decrypted after having been an ...enigma for the oast 60
years
Look at this one [
www.uboatwar.net]
John_Stone Report This Comment Date: March 30, 2006 04:38AM
Apparently available on Ebay as we chat.
90130_ Report This Comment Date: March 30, 2006 05:08AM
No way! I checked it out with every possible keyword or search, and I can't
find it. I cannot imagine something of such great historical signifigance and
value ending up on Ebay.
90130_ Report This Comment Date: March 30, 2006 05:33PM
Cool. I just love stuff like this. Reading the auction listing, it appears that
someone got it from his grandfather. What a treasure!
90130_ Report This Comment Date: March 30, 2006 05:36PM
I have part of a nose gear cylinder and ID plate from a P38 Lightning found in
the Phillipines. Maybe I should auction that?