Luftwaffe Convoy ID Manual

[Ulrich Rudofsky]

Interesting Luftwaffe website with an archive of intrument manuals etc...

Example: German Luftwaffe convoy ID manual : Identification of Merchant Ships within a Convoy
http://www.cockpitinstrumente.de/archiv ... eitzug.pdf http://deutscheluftwaffe.de/

[Ulrich Rudofsky]

Translation of the Luftwaffe document and the original are at
Original: http://docs.google.com/fileview?id=0B9Q ... NWI4&hl=en
Translation: http://docs.google.com/fileview?id=0B9Q ... MDc3&hl=en

[RF]

Yes, these are certainly interesting documents - were these produced entirely from Luftwaffe sources, or was there any KM input?

[Ulrich Rudofsky]

That would be interesting to know since the Luftwaffe and Kriegsmarine were notoriously uncooperative. I would guess that the "Führungsstab (See)" (General Staff-Sea) of the RLM had a few naval officer attached to it. The word "Dwarslinie" (athwart line) is a nautical term

[RF]

Another (entirely hypothetical) aspect to this is how useful the manual would have been to the Graf Zeppelin and its aircrews had that CV been in a position to attack an Atlantic convoy.