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Originally Posted by bstanko6
In real life, the could never confirm sinkings until they got home and received intelligence from spy’s, radio, and such.
Their KTB entry of ship and tonnage was a “guesstimate” until it was confirmed later.
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Yes your right! But they tryed to figure out more information about the ship by interceps and interrogation. Many ships were paintet with wrong names and the survivors made incorrect information about name and cargo and so on.
You can read about this in many KTBs and in a lot of eyewitness reports. There was a addition to the Marinedienstvorschrift 135 "Suchliste für Schiffsnamen" (List of Shipnames) printed in 1943 to cover changing of names for existing ships. In the foreword it is said that this list (its more likley a book instead) should help to identify the single ship when the ships are renamed or when incomplete names.
This was used to fool the enemy.
Would be very great to implement the hole matter in TWoS!