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Old 02-05-08, 12:45 PM   #7
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True, but the messages sent to the boats did not offer anything for the hunters in terms of location information since the boats are not transmitting anything. The germans were quite prolific in their shore-based traffic, supposedly to keep the boats informed and not thinking that their codes were or could be compromised. The massively powerful low frequency transmitter, Nauen and later Goliath even allowed u-boat reception underwater, so BdU could keep jabbering away at his boats (oblivious to the allies listening in).
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