On This Day — Enigma Machine Captured (May 9 1941) [2019]

“MON., FEB., 03, 2020@14:05-BRAVO ZULU ROYAL NAVAL WARSHIPS, AS ESCORTS, WHEN THE ENIGMA WAS CAPTURED FROM U-110, OUR ALLIED WORLD WAS MORE OR LESS. SAVED, THOUGH, WITHOUT LOSS OF LIFE, AS W.W.II/1939-1945 WAS JUST IN ITS BEGINNING STAGES/2 YEARS, THOUGH, THE BATTLE OF THE ATLANTIC/1939-1945, WAS NOT ONLY THE LONGEST CAMPAIGN OF W.W.II, IT WAS more than precisely THE MOST DECISIVE..IN ALL WAYS/FORMS AND MATTERS AND IT WAS ONLY THE ONLY POSSIBLE VICTORY, FOR GERMANY, THE FATHERLAND’S AXIS…ITALY, JAPAN, OF W.W.II/1939-1945!!!”

“Credit: Intel Today…INTELLIGENCE MATTERS.”

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Intel Today

“Also the coding machine was found here, plugged in and as though it was in actual use when abandoned. The general appearance of this machine being that of a type writer, the telegraphist pressed the keys and finding results peculiar sent it up the hatch. This W/T office seemed far less complicated than our own-sets were more compact and did not seem to have the usual excess of switches, plug holes, knobs, ‘tally’s’ etc on the outside.”

Lieutenant David Balme — Report on the U-110  boarding

The Wireless Telegraph area on board U Boat U-124 in March 1941, where the Enigma machine, similar to a typewriter, can be seen bottom left.

May 9 2019 — One of the outstanding intelligence breakthroughs of the World War II came on May 9 1941 with the capture of an intact Enigma machine. Follow us on Twitter: @Intel_Today

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The Ships and History of War at Sea

“MON., FEB., 03, 2020@13:41: RESEARCH, GERMAN U-BOATS AND ITALIAN SUBMARINES, IN THE MED., 1939/1945 DURING W.W.II.”

“NOTE: FOR WARSHIPS OF THE ALLIED NATIONS, MERCHANT VESSELS OF THE SAME, ALLIED SUBMARINES…ALL SUNK BY GERMAN U-BOATS AND ITALIAN SUBMARINES IN W.W.II/1939-1945, RESEARCH THE BOOK AXIS SUBMARINE SUCCESSES/1939-1945, BY THE GREAT DR., Jurgen ROHWER.”

“CREDIT: Complex Variables.”

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Complex Variables

One of the many enjoyable things about historical wargames such as War at Sea (WAS) is that they represent an interesting period in history, and can spark interest and knowledge about history among players. I have enjoyed looking at the ships and rules of WAS to better understand the events of the naval war in the Atlantic.

At the start of the war, the world’s navies had been shaped for many years by treaties intended to limit naval arms races. These treaties included Washington 1922, London 1930, London 1936, the Versailles treaty affecting Germany, plus failed talks at Geneva in 1927 and 1932. Britain also had a separate agreement with Germany in 1935, absolving the Germans from some Versailles restrictions, to the dismay of France.

Treaties limited the size and armament of cruisers and larger ships, plus the numbers and/or total tonnage of various ship classes…

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International Naval Intervention and Protection Force 1936

“MONDAY, FEBRUARY 03, 2020@13:23: CHINA’S SUNKEN WARSHIPS…BRAVO ZULU AND RESEARCH IS THE REWARD…RESEARCH ALL THESE WARSHIPS AND OTHER VESSELS, AS THIS IS A GREAT BLOG!!!”

“CREDIT: China’s Sunken Warships.”

“W.W.II/1939-1945 NAVAL HISTORY…MUST BE KEPT ALIVE!!!”

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Robert Whiston's Weblog

By Robert Whiston FRSA. Feb 2010

It is not widely appreciated that the Second World War very nearly began not in 1939 but in 1937.

A commentary on the array of international naval forces deployed for the evacuation and subsequent patrolling of Spanish waters, 1936 – 1939.

Contents:-

1. International Alarm
2. List of Warships
3. Strategic Location
4. Evacution of Foreign Nationals
5. List of Mechantmen
6. Spanish Naval Forces
7. Submarines
8. Photo Gallery
9. How pivotal was Gold ?
10. Sources and References
Footnotes

 

1. International Alarm

The Spanish Civil War is perhaps both the most controversial yet most forgotten conflict of the 20th century. At its height it tied up the majority of the British Home Fleet and a sizeable proportion of the French Navy.

The reason why the civil war nearly triggered an early start to a World War is two fold; Spain is…

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“On this day in history” German submarines at sea during the Battle of the Atlantic

“MON., FEB., 03, 2020@13:05-THE GERMAN SUBMARINES AT SEA, DURING THE BATTLE OF THE ATLANTIC/1939-1945…VERY, VERY MANY DIFFERENT SOURCES DIFFER, AS I HAVE RESEARCHED MAY, 1945 MORE, THAN 25, AS WHEN ORDERED BY ADMIRAL DOENITZ/GERMANY TO SURRENDER MAY, 08, 1945, PROBABLY MORE THAN 25 DID SO, IN IRELAND, GIBRALTAR, CANADA, AMERICA, ALL OVER THE NORTH AND SOUTH ATLANTIC, THOUGH, 2 U-BOATS ON JUNE 02, 1945? I THINK THEY ALL SURRENDERED BY JUNE, 1945!!!”

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Naval Matters

German submarines at sea “on this day in history” 11 June during the Battle of the Atlantic.

1940 18
1941 30
1942 75
1943 89
1944 96
1945 2

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OTDIH 23 October 1943

“MON., FEB., 03, 2020@12:31: THIS IS CONCERNING THE GERMAN SUBMARINE, ALL THE ALLIED WARSHIPS AND ALL OF W.W.II/1939-1945, ON THIS BLOG AND POSTING OF Naval Matters.”

“CREDIT: Naval Matters.”

“NOTE: EXCELLENT PHOTOS OF HIS MAJESTY’S SHIPS, ROYAL NAVY, W.W.II/1939-1945!!!”

“U-190…ATTACKED MY LATE FATHER’S WARSHIP, ON MARCH 24, 1945, H.M.C.S. CARLPLACE K 664@16:00, AS K 664 WAS INDEPENDENTLY SAILING FROM W.U.B.-WORKING UP BERMUDA, BERMUDA TO HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA, CANADA, NEAR THE HALIFAX APPROACHES-SAMBRO LIGHT VESSEL-20 NAUTICAL MILES FROM HALIFAX, N.S., CANADA, U-190 ATTACKED K 664 AND FOR A CLOSER DESCRIBING…RESEARCH FLICR/H.M.C.S. CARLPLACE K 664 by Carlplace and Carlplace1.”

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Naval Matters

70-years ago today…

Großadmiral Karl Dönitz has 95 U-boats at sea. The Battle of the Atlantic was not over.

In the South Atlantic:

U-170, a Type IXC U-boat, KptLt Günther Pfeffer commanding, on its 2nd war patrol, torpedoed and sunk the unescorted Brazilian steam merchant Campos (4,663 GRT) 5-miles south of Alcatrazes Island, Brazil. The crew of 57 and 6 passengers took to the ship’s lifeboats, tragically two of which were struck by the ship’s screw, throwing the occupants to the water. 10 crew members and 2 passengers were lost.

SS Campos.

In the Black Sea:

U-23
, a Type IIB U-boat, KptLt Rolf-Birger Wahlen commanding, on its 12th war patrol, torpedoed and sunk the Soviet motor merchant Tanais (372 GRT) anchored at Poti, Georgian SSR. The U-Boat was operating in the Black Sea with the 30th U-Boat Flotilla… having been transported overland to Konstanza, Rumania in 1942.

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Chapter Four – German U-boat Insignia in WW II

“MON., FEB., 03, 2020@12:13: RESEARCH SOME GERMAN U-BOAT EMBLEMS, THAT WERE ON THEIR CONNING TOWERS, ETC.”

“RESEARCH IS THE REWARD.”

“CREDIT: PRESERVING THE PAST.”

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Preserving the Past

Research and story by Clarence Simonsen

All rights reserved

It is important to note that the Luftwaffe was the most politically favored branch of the entire German Wehrmacht in the first two years of WWII. They designed and painted unit insignia in enormous numbers that possibly reached 1,500 badges and emblems. In the early years of the war, the new Nazi Party introduced past German military events and heroes into the Luftwaffe names and badges. For some reason this proved very unpopular with Luftwaffe units who adopted the more common themes for aircraft use. Another very uncommon practice was the usage of the same Luftwaffe political art, emblems, and badges, on the conning tower of the German U-boats.

Over 430 WW II German U-Boats [Kriegsmarine] painted insignia or emblems on their conning towers. This art varied from U-Boat flotilla emblems [24] to German coat of arms [32]. A few German…

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Trumplandia: Dec. 28 — Jan. 4, 2020

“JUST ANOTHER MANIC MONDAY, FEBRUARY 03, 2020@11:51: DOES THIS COWARDICE CANADA/1993 TO 2020 BULLSH.T, SERIOUSLY EXPECT PEOPLE ALL OVER THE ALLIED WORLD…TO SUPPORT A MODERN DAY/1993-2020 SPY RING, CIVILIANS, TO THE MORE OF A HINDRANCE…THAN W.W.II/LORD HAW HAW…William JOYCE, Tokyo ROSE AND AN AS.HOLE OF THE YELLOW CANADIAN COLOUR, A THEN/1993 LIEUTENANT COLONEL…ON ACTIVE SERVICE/CANADIAN FORCES/RESERVES, AND DETECTIVE/HAMILTON POLICE FORCE, ON ACTIVE SERVICE/1993, WHOM KNEW WHO THE CRIMINAL TREASON WEBSITE CIVILIAN-SPIES WERE, WHERE THEY LIVED, ETC., AND FOR NUMEROUS YEARS, WITH OTHER MEMBERS OF THE HAMILTON POLICE FORCE AND CSIS, OTHER CANADIAN POLICE FORCES, DID NOTHING BUT GOSSIP ABOUT THIS COWARDICE CANADA/1993-2020 BULLSH.T?”

“YOU MORON CANADIANS, ARE MORE BRAINWASHED THAN THE IDIOTS ON LORD HAW HAWS RADIO CBC BROAD-CASTINGS, more than precisely ONE MILLION TIMES FOLD!!!”

“COWARDICE CANADA/1993-2020, HAS TO BE TOTALLY INEPT, AND ON CLOUD NINE…TO EVER IGNORE THIS WITH LEGAL MATTER AND HAVE IT STILL CONTINUING TO THIS VERY DAY!!!”

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“NO WONDER YOUR CANADA’S TREASON, ETC., 1993-2020, HAS OUT-SPREAD THE BLACK PLAGUE, IN A 28 YEAR IGNORED, COWARDICE, MUCH MORE THAN JUST A STATE OF MIND…APPEARANCE!!!”

THE SHINBONE STAR

The New Year’s Edition

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APPROVAL ALERT AT PRESS TIME:
FiveThirtyEight Poll: 42.5% – down from 42.6% last week
Rasmussen Poll: 50% – up from 48% last week

Welcome to Trumplandia, a place where with a bit of wit and snark, we keep the world caught up on all of the tasty Nuggets-O-Trump you may have heard about but were too busy to care. Because most of this minutia occurs just below the massive headlines about the POTUS, it’s in a land of its own. Here, an infusion of social media, video clips and print media meld with our outdated political views to make more delicious “Fake News” about our Commander-in-Chief.

So just like the president, we start it all with a little tweet like this:

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Bringing it in With a Bang!

The week of our Trump – Dec. 28, 2019: Do you remember that queasy, uneasy feeling you used to…

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Operation “Fish”

“MON., FEB., 03, 2020@11:36: GERMAN U-BOATS AT WAR/1939-1945 AND H.M.S. EMERALD…FOR RESEARCH IS THE REWARD, WITH ALSO-OPERATION FISH!!!”

“NOTE: LET US KEEP W.W.II NAVAL HISTORY, ALIVE!!!”

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Today in Ottawa's History

2 July 1940

When Sidney Perkins left his house on Euclid Avenue in Ottawa South to go to work on the morning of 2 July 1940, he had no notion that he was about to become part of one of the most secretive and daring operations of the Second World War. An operation that, had it failed, would have meant Britain’s almost certain defeat. Perkins worked for the Foreign Exchange Control Board which had been set up by the Bank of Canada at the outset of the war the previous year to husband Canada’s foreign currency resources. Shortly before noon, Perkins was summoned to the office of David Mansur, the Assistant Chairman of the Board and told that he was to make immediate arrangements to fly to Halifax and meet an important shipment. With the only flight to Halifax leaving in thirty minutes via Montreal, Perkins had no time even…

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Destroyer HMS Malcolm approaching German submarine U-541 after the U-Boat surrendered pursuant to Germanys surrender terms 11 May 1945 off Portugal photographed from a PBY from VPB-63. More photos here: https://t.co/ZfkO3m16K2 https://t.co/EOlzN7AXw2

“MONDAY, FEB., 03, 2020@010:52-U-541 WAS ESCORTED BY H.M.S. MALCOLM, INTO THE ALLIED NAVAL PORT OF GIBRALTAR, MAY, 1945!!!”

“NOTE: MY LATE FATHER’S WARSHIP, H.M.C.S. CARLPLACE K 664 AND HER ESCORT GROUP ESCORT GROUP /E.G. C-CANADIAN 16, WAS IN GIBRALTAR, AFTER ESCORTING CONVOY K.M.F., 44 AND I HAVE A PHOTO OF U-541…STEAMING INTO PORT, BEING ESCORTED BY A PT., BOAT/AMERICAN, THOUGH H.M.S. MALCOLM IS NOT IN THE PHOTOGRAPH!!!”

“A REALLY NICE PHOTO OF THE SURRENDERED GERMAN SUBMARINE U-541/MAY, 1945!!!”

“PHOTO CREDIT OF MY U-541, DECEASED ROYAL CANADIAN NAVAL SUBMARINE DETECTOR-MURZA, John Andrew, V-82787, SD., A/AB., H.M.C.S. CARLPLACE K664, H.M.C.SHIPS VISON S30, BORDER CITIES, “A” CLASS INSTRUCTOR’S COURSE, HONOURABLE DISCHARGE-WITH VERY GOOD CHARACTER.”

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“CREDIT: I.W.M., IMPERIAL WAR MUSEUM, ENGLAND.”

The Ida Lupino Blog-a-thon: Don’t Mess with this Dame

“MON., FEB., 03, 2020@010:42-U.S.ARMED FORCES SINGLE MEN, DEPLOYED IN WAR/CONFLICT ZONES, ABROAD, MIDDLE EAST, ETC., BRING HER BACK TO THE OLD DAYS BOYS…THIS IS YOUR PINUP GIRL FOR TODAY, YES WAY JOSE…=Miss IDA LUPINO, A GREAT ACTRESS, W.W.II PINUP GIRL ETC., AND ONE GREAT DAME YOU WOULD NOT WANT TO MESS WITH, EVEN WHEN YOU ARE LIGHTING IDA’S CIGARETTE!!!”

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shadowsandsatin

As an actress, Ida Lupino referred to herself as “a poor man’s Bette Davis,” and as a director, she called herself “the poor man’s Don Siegel,” but for me, she wasn’t the poor man’s anything.  For me, Ida personified the hard-boiled, scotch-drinking, tough-talking dame from the wrong side of the tracks.  In one of her films, she says, “I’ve seen and heard it all, buster.”  That’s Ida Lupino to me.

 Ida was born in London on February 4, 1918 – according to legend, she was born under a table during a zeppelin raid in the first World War.  She had a real show-business family.  Her father, Stanley, was a famous dance hall performer, her mother was once known as the fastest tap dancer alive, her paternal great-grandfather was an acrobatic ballet dancer and singer, and her great-uncles were stage headlin­ers.

Ida really wanted to be a writer, but she said…

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