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Re: German Documents found after scuttling of U-49?
Posted by: Platon Alexiades ()
Date: January 06, 2022 07:49PM

Among the documents recovered from U-49 were:

1. The German Naval Grid Chart.
2. The U-boat dispositions (1st phase only) for Operation HARTMUT (U-boat side of Weserübung).

As far as I know, no code books were recovered at that time. This occurred only on 26 April 1940, when the Q-ship Schiff 26 was captured off Norway.

See ADM199/361 [TNA] (war diaries of Admiral Forbes, C. in C. Home Fleet) and other related files. Unfortunately, the original German documents have proven very elusive to locate and were probably destroyed.

Platon

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German Documents found after scuttling of U-49? Wylye 01/06/2022 03:27AM
Re: German Documents found after scuttling of U-49? Platon Alexiades 01/06/2022 07:49PM
Re: German Documents found after scuttling of U-49? Wylye 01/06/2022 08:19PM


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