April 27 movie: Objective: Burma! Speaking of war movies which focus on one person. This one practically makes it seem like Errol Flynn pulled off the invasion of Burma single-handedly. In fact the British aren't involved at all according to this version. Which so pissed off the real British, who very much were involved in the real invasion, that this movie was banned from Britain for years after the war. Don't you hate the way Hollywood does that? American GIs are always solving Enigma or saving Leningrad or some such nonsense. Do they think we won't watch a movie about anyone but us?
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The movie about the Americans extracting an Enigma machine from a Nazi submarine was even more flawed than might first appear. The British had obtained plans of the Enigma machine early in WW2 from Polish intelligence. In fact the machine had been described in the open patent literature! The last thing the British wanted was for the Nazis to know that they had an Enigma machine, what they needed was the lists of so-called "Indicator Settings" to which all Enigmas belonging to a given service group were set every 24 hours.