Photographs!

Okay, we will readily admit that photographs have been somewhat lacking in reproductive quality for a while, but I think you’ll agree the photos in KTB #169 last month were quite an improvement and photos in this issue (and from now on) are quite good.

Thanks for your patience – we are moving forward!

Spooks and Spies – and even Saboteurs

No matter how good a military is, they have little or no chance in battle if the enemy knows their plans and their every move. As we learn in this issue, the rout of the American forces during the Battle of the Bulge was in very large part due to weather reporting done by some U-Boats. I think it is common knowledge that if the saboteurs had not neutralized the German heavy water production, Germany would have had the atomic bomb first. In “JAPAN’S SECRET WAR”, the book by ROBERT WILCOX (25-1984), we learn that Japan had test fired an atomic device before America, but thanks to the Spooks and Spies that helped break the Enigma, the orders, routes & dates of the U-Boats bringing nuclear material to Japan were known and all of these U-Boats except U-234 under JOHANN-HEINRICH FEHLER (32-+-1984) were sunk long before they could reach Japan with their cargoes – or even reach the Atlantic for that matter, dooming Japan’s hopes for an atomic weapon with which to combat the American fleet coming at them.

The soldiers, sailors, marines, airmen are all vitally important to any combat environment, that is certain – but the Spooks and Spies can sometimes win the battle even before it begins. Check this issue.

BBC Praise

The BBC considers SHARKHUNTERS to be:

“The most respected and the most authoritative source in the world for German U-Boat history.”
--per BBC reporter Graham Pound; November 1996