Re: Germany, Japan, and the PTO-did the Germans know how things were going?



On Tue, 31 Jul 2007 07:58:00 -0700, Eunometic
<eunometic@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Jul 31, 7:15 pm, "Geoffrey Sinclair" <gsinclai...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

On May 16th may 1941 he notes being depth charged by a US Arizona
class destroyer not far from the Shetland-Faroes Passage. That's a
long way from
the USA. He notes that the u-boat commanders were opperating under a
'fuhrerbefele'
to avoid incidents with US ships.


That's a four-piper, the Brits had almost 40 of them in May '41.
How did they establish its identity, call for a time-out and ask?

Peter Skelton
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