TheCodeBreakers
Funkaufklarungsdienst one of its greatest triumphs, since the message
originated in a high-echelon ground command and was directed to other
ground commands, while the planes themselves maintained radio
silence. These were 178 four-engined Liberators, heading for the
Rumanian oil fields at Ploesti, Hitler's chief source of oil for his thirsty
war machine, in one of the longest-range and potentially one of the most
important air strikes of the war. As they lumbered into the air at Bengazi
on the morning of August 1, 1943, for their 1,200-mile flight, the 9th Air
Force spread a short message to Allied forces in the Mediterranean area
announcing that a large mission was airborne from Libya. This was
necessary because only a few weeks before, in the invasion of Sicily, the
U.S. Navy had shot down dozens of American troop planes in the
tragically mistaken belief that they were German bombers.
The message was picked up by a Funkaufklarungsdienst unit recently
posted near Athens
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