TheCodeBreakers
43835, or 37 kilometers from Gafa, that American forces were forbidden
to fire upon airplanes unless the airplanes attacked them (to prevent
shooting down Allied planes). All these details were fitted together to give
the German command a picture of the troops facing them, their state of
mind, their preparation.
Occasionally, a single solved message produced strikingly dramatic
results. During a conference at the headquarters of the Commanding
General, Southwest, in 1943, Colonel Karl-Albert Miigge, commander of
Fernmeldeaufklarung 7, brought Field Marshal Kesselring a British
intercept that had just been cryptanalyzed. It reported that in North
Africa several troop columns were caught in a traffic jam of their own
making by crowding into a wadi at—and here the cryptogram was
garbled so that the exact location could not be read. Kesselring called for
an immediate air search; the jammed wadi was discovered while the
Germans were still in conference. Kesselring promptly ordered an air
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