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Old 11th September 2009, 12:22
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Re: U-Boat victories and claims

I can't answer the claims/awards question but maybe www.uboat.net could?

I'm pretty sure that several years ago the Ministry of Defence published a set of books and maps (all in a case) which had details and track charts for all the U-boats "followed" by British Intelligence.

For Adriano: listening stations picked up and recorded traffic BdU and the individual U-boats but this was encrypted, so it was passed to Bletchley Park for decoding (if possible). A lot of information could still be derived from direction-finding (as Bruce says), frequencies and the "fist" of the individual morse operators. Take a look at this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodger_Winn

And, if you can get hold of it: "Very Special Intelligence: The Story of the Admiralty's Operational Intelligence Centre, 1939-1945" by Patrick Beesley. It's very good on the non-Ultra aspects of buidling up the intelligence picture.
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