Hello! And thank you for the reply. I've since come across this photo myself in a Time publication edited by Tim Mulligan. It certainly looks to be part of the Fahrt-Gerat or part of a prototype of it. I have a couple of descriptions of the device that mention a full scale conning tower that was able to be turned, as well as weather conditions and visibilty that could be varied. I'm a
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Hi Everybody I am looking for any photographs or schematics for the Fahrt-Gerat convoy attack simulator that was situated at Neustadt. According to interrogation records, it consisted of "a complete U-boat conning tower suspended above a sheet of water with the periscope looking down upon it. On the sheet of water are miniature ships on metal rods. They form convoys which move about at
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