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Originally Posted by ChrisS
I believe I'm correct in saying that by this stage of the war Enigma was little used. With the Germans fighting on their own territory landlines became the prefered method of communiction.CheersChris
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Chris, I must disagree with you. ULTRA intercepts were used extensively until the end of the war. The Luftwaffe continued to use "wireless" far more than landlines, quite a bit. While
Bodenplatte was not specifically picked up, as to its actual date, lots of indications were there. Read John Manrho's book
Bodenplatte published by Hikkoki. John is a regular contributer to this forum.
As for ULTRA and "The Bulge", the USA did a late 1945 analysis of ULTRA traffic to see if there were warnings. The USA National Archives has quite a report and file on this. The report's conclusion was that there were extensive "flags" and warnings about a German counterattack, but they were ignored by those in command, both British and Americans. Hey, the war was over, right?
I will repeat what many others have said, here, including, John Manrho, Nick Beale, and Jim Kitchens: you cannot write a history about anything with WWII in Western Europe or the Med without looking at and referencing ULTRA intercept files. What was known by Britain and the US is simply amazing.