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Old 12-27-13, 11:51 AM   #6724
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Originally Posted by gi_dan2987 View Post
Yes Steve I know you were joking. I was joking
Good. While I have a fair sense of humor I have always found it hard to tell what others are thinking, so I have a tendence to make sure my intent is as clear as I can make it.

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Upon doing research though, I actually did find out that BdU really wasn't all that hot on radio chatter. They would tell the boats things they NEEDED to know and only that. The allies were excellent at deciphering messages, and after the enigma code was broken, the Germans practiced even better radio discipline.
Maybe with outgoing traffic. I don't know anything about that. As for incoming traffic, boats were required to give daily traffic and weather reports for far too long. Historian Peter Padfield made a note of pointing out that the Brits were laughing at the wealth of information being transmitted as late as mid-1943, all the while never figuring out the the Germans were reading their own mail, and transmitting just as freely.

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Well Steve-o, I found that WB's mission orders does the trick.
Cool. I still don't do manual targeting.
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