Code Name Caesar by Preisler Jerome; Sewell Kenneth;

Author:Preisler, Jerome; Sewell, Kenneth; [Jerome Preisler and Kenneth Sewell]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 1139865
Publisher: Souvenir Press
Published: 2013-04-07T16:00:00+00:00

The cable goes on to detail some of the items of freight, with deletions that its U. S. Navy translator explains were made because they “enumerated only cargo numbers and amounts of various undescribed articles.” The translator also adds, “The three German submarines which left Bordeaux in late August, 1944 are unidentified.”

And now a summer of turbulence and defeat for the Reich had turned to bleakest winter. As December drew to a close, Admiral Dönitz had reduced the transfer program to three submarines, with U-864 as his lone outrider for the year and the uncertain goal of following through with two more boats in 1945. For their part, the Allies still knew nothing of U-864, but their signals intelligence operations had scored enough information from radio intercepts to confirm that the Germans were heavily invested in providing their most dangerous Wunderwaffen to Japan. Despite massive losses in the Atlantic, there was no doubt the Kriegsmarine was still capable of pursuing that goal and had promised to send over submarines stocked with plans and components for the “futuristic” arms and armaments, accompanied by a cadre of technical advisers schooled in their production. The Allies knew they had to prevent this, but actually doing so was a problem.

“One subject on which ULTRA could not be relied on to provide timely warning, or sometimes any warning at all, was the movement of Germany’s main naval units,” wrote the distinguished British Sigint officer Edward Thomas. “Reports from the ship watchers were often the first to be received in London.”

By 1944, Thomas’s star with the navy had soared; he had gotten reassigned from the listening station in Iceland to Bletchley Park, and then been made adviser on signals intelligence to the commander in chief of the Royal Navy’s Home Fleet. In that post he would play a central role gathering intel about German naval operations in Norwegian waters and along the Arctic convoy routes. Through repeated experiences, Thomas had found that the time it took to decrypt and translate German naval communications captured from the front, then distribute them to Allied commanders in London and Washington, then formulate plans based on that gathered information, and then wait for their orders to be relayed back to the theater of operations … all this resulted in impracticable holdups for tactical leaders.

This was no truer at any stage of the war than the winter of 1944. As the Kriegsmarine scampered to elude Allied blows, the departures of its vessels were often decided at a rapid clip that was difficult to anticipate and counter.

With BdU West relocated to Norway, the Allies would need to lean heavily on the men and women who had been watching the nation’s coast, transmitting radio updates on German ship movements, damages, repairs, and even changing sea and weather conditions. And British intelligence would now collect a handsome payoff for its formation of the Shetland Bus, and the daring missions of the 9th Flotilla’s submarines in support of the resistance.

Only two months after Operation Weserübung,

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