In the dark days of World War II, the secretive staff at a large building on Nebraska Avenue NW in Washington kept a scoreboard of its success. Each time a German U-boat was sunk by the U.S. Navy, ...

Once the hunters of the Atlantic ocean, the German wolfpacks by 1944 had become the hunted. Allied task groups dubbed “Hunter-Killer[s]” methodically attacked, scuttled and destroyed German U-boats, ...

WORLD War Two codebreaker Ruth Bourne, who worked with Alan Turing to crack the German Enigma code, has died aged 99. Ms Bourne, grew up in Birmingham but later lived in High Barnet, north London, ...

Codebreaker Ruth Bourne, who worked alongside Alan Turing to crack the German's Enigma code, has died aged 98. After joining the Wrens (Women's Royal Naval Service), Ms Bourne, from High Barnet in ...