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The Germans were intercepting the US Cairo military attache's transmissions to the US, enabling Rommel to do very well in North Africa, this changed before the Battle of El Alamein.
From History Net = Intercepted Communications for Field Marshal Erwin Rommel
https://www.historynet.com/intercepted-communications-for-field-marshal-erwin-rommel.htm
" Fellers composed long, usually pessimistic radiograms describing virtually everything he learned, encoded them and filed them with the Egyptian Telegraph Company for transmission across the Atlantic to Washington. Within an hour of their transmission from Cairo, the colonel’s Black Code messages found their way to German cryptanalysts’ desks. Another hour or two and they would be broken into readable text, ready to be retransmitted in a German code. Thus, a few hours after Fellers’ messages were sent, the data would be in Rommel’s hands. Chiffrierabteilung archivist Dr. Herbert Schaedel said that military headquarters ‘went crazy…to get all the telegrams from Cairo.’ He pointed out that the most revealing, Fellers’ reports, were easily pulled from the hundreds of coded intercepts received daily. They were flagged MILID WASH (Military Intelligence Division, Washington) or AGWAR WASH (Adjutant General, War Department, Washington), and signed FELLERS. Schaedel recalled that the Desert Fox ‘each day at lunch, knew exactly where the Allied troops were standing the evening before. "
From History Net = Intercepted Communications for Field Marshal Erwin Rommel
https://www.historynet.com/intercepted-communications-for-field-marshal-erwin-rommel.htm
" Fellers composed long, usually pessimistic radiograms describing virtually everything he learned, encoded them and filed them with the Egyptian Telegraph Company for transmission across the Atlantic to Washington. Within an hour of their transmission from Cairo, the colonel’s Black Code messages found their way to German cryptanalysts’ desks. Another hour or two and they would be broken into readable text, ready to be retransmitted in a German code. Thus, a few hours after Fellers’ messages were sent, the data would be in Rommel’s hands. Chiffrierabteilung archivist Dr. Herbert Schaedel said that military headquarters ‘went crazy…to get all the telegrams from Cairo.’ He pointed out that the most revealing, Fellers’ reports, were easily pulled from the hundreds of coded intercepts received daily. They were flagged MILID WASH (Military Intelligence Division, Washington) or AGWAR WASH (Adjutant General, War Department, Washington), and signed FELLERS. Schaedel recalled that the Desert Fox ‘each day at lunch, knew exactly where the Allied troops were standing the evening before. "
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fat tony
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Heinkel 162 Salamander development & operational history excerpts.
Iran - Iraq War footage.
From the relative comfort of our easy chairs it is easy to laugh at the dumb Germans with their plywood warplanes, and Iranian soldiers at the landfill like battlefront wearing garrison dress while fighting & sharing helmets.
It could happen to you. I recall seeing pics of these called up retired chaps on the frontlines in Donbass wearing makeshift parkas made from old wool carpets.
It could happen to you.
Going to war with your garrison work dress. Hell. Talk about harsh.
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maple_leaf_eh
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This is the weapon that is replacing the .50 cal MG in ground roles. Although the .50 is a big and noisy morale builder, results in combat situations are showing it isn't quite as deadly as its reputation suggests.
