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The British ship, HMS Aubretia, spots the U-110's periscope and drops depth charges to disable the submarine.
The British do not want the Germans to know they have the Enigma machine so they tow the U-110 to Iceland where it eventually sinks.
The U-505 has a permanent home at Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry, where visitors can tour it.
With the sinking of the U-559, the British gain the information they need to finally break the Enigma Machine's code.
It is never easy to break the codes because the Germans change them frequently; finally the British learn to decode important weather signals.
KLM 4805 requests and starts the take-off process without clearance.
As they investigate a deadly virus which is infecting and killing people in the Yambuku area of Zaire, investigators decide to name the virus after a ...
Trained to conduct salvage missions, Brashear and his team aboard the USS Hoist go to retrieve the missing hydrogen bomb.
The Raptor is agile and can inflict serious damage with its "sickle"claw.
Due to sharp peaks, steep inclines, unsafe crevasses, and avalanches, K2 is not the setting for Vertical Limit.
Mt. Vesuvius's first "pine tree" eruption is now termed a "Plinian" event.
Boisjoly and colleagues continue to warn Morton Thiokol and NASA that an O-ring may fail if the temperature is too cold at launch time.
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