and striped the equipment which included a German Naval Enigma, the encryption machine used by German military to communicate secrete messages. Alan Turing and his team subsequently broke the cipher, therefore, the Allies was able to listen to the German military communication, and hence giving Allies the edge over Nazi Germany. Then cmdr. Baker-Cresswell was awarded DSO and promoted to Capt. King George VI told him that capturing Enigma was "the most important single event in the whole war at sea".