OT Debate: If you were karl Donitz .... - Page 5

NoLine · 04-21-07, 08:21 AM

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Originally Posted by STEED

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Originally Posted by UnterseeBoogeyMan

the best way to win the Battle of the Atlantic would be more attention to encryption and misinformation. When Enigma was cracked, the Uboats were bringing a butterknife to a gunfight. The Allies knew where they were and where they were going to be.

U-Boat codes were much harder to break and the operators were not sloppy like the army and air force. Out of the three military wings there's was the hardest to crack and were updated more.

dont think it would have mattered much if the german codes werent broken the brits used radio direction finding to pinpoint the subs on the map, without knowing what they where talking about

The Poles broke the enigma code from the wehrmacht as soon as 1939 the extra rotor (4 iso 3) from the kriegsmarine was harder to crack

Just using the radio defeated the uboats, donnitz talks about this in his book how they didnt think radio direction finding could be that accurate

cheers
NoLine

Jimbuna · 04-21-07, 08:26 AM

In particular during the early years of the war it was in fact precisely the breaking of the enigma that allowed the allies to redirect convoys away from where they knew the u-boats were lying in wait that saved countless lives and ships

04-21-07, 08:26 AM	#62
Jimbuna Chief of the Boat Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: 250 metres below the surface Posts: 191,380 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 13	In particular during the early years of the war it was in fact precisely the breaking of the enigma that allowed the allies to redirect convoys away from where they knew the u-boats were lying in wait that saved countless lives and ships __________________ Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. Oh my God, not again!!

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