Convoy reconnaissance

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Originally Posted by Stig Jarlevik

Indeed

...Britain was an Empire in 1939 and if you start a war with an Empire you also need to keep track of what the Empire can do and will do, not only its Motherland...

Cheers
Stig

Well, it is the Empire which declared the war on Germany on 3 September 1939, and not the other way around.

As for the state of German Intelligence, the picture was really mixed - some notable successes, and some dismal failures. I read somewhere, must have been here https://books.google.ie/books/about/...AJ&redir_esc=y, that Milch ordered a couple of books from English bookstores, which told him more about Britain that he could learn from his own intelligence. Anyway...