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Last summer the History Channel aired a silly documentary on the Dieppe raid which claimed the raid was an elaborate cover for Flemming and his commando group t
by ronmac 14y ago
Last summer the History Channel aired a silly documentary on the Dieppe raid which claimed the raid was an elaborate cover for Flemming and his commando group to pinch a U-boat code machine.
The reality is that Flemming and his group had nothing to do with the planning of the raid. They learned about afterwards and asked if they could tag along, drawing up their own targets, etc.
Also Dieppe was not used for U-boats so where they did get this idea they find an enigma machine?
- chiph 14y agoThere were a couple of versions of the Enigma. The German U-Boat command used it (4-rotors) as well as the Army (3-rotors). It's possible they hoped to pick up one being used by the Army, and even better, the keys for it. Operationally, the Navy generally had better procedures, but both had weaknesses (cribs) that were able to be exploited by Bletchley Park. Both tended to have the phrase "Heil Hitler" in their messages, and the Navy would transmit identical weather info in both Enigma and weaker encryption systems.
- ronmac 14y agoIf I remember the AU30 were targeting German Naval HQ at Dieppe. Even if they did manage to pinch one of these machines the Germans would have noticed it and changed the codes. I don't know if you saw the documentary which aired on Canadian History Channel last summer The documentary was such a snow job, portraying Flemming as the master planner of British intelligence operations when he was just of one of many midstream officers.