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In the cryptic style of teleprinter Meldekopf 1 – I/Ln Funkhorch-Regiment West – the radio monitoring and interception department of 12th Fliegerkorps HQ received from Palais Luxembourg, Paris (HQ of the 3rd Air Fleet) the so-called WIM report. This was the collated result of hostile radio traffic, navigational bomb and radar aids, IFF and jamming devices. Largely, however, it was based upon the brief radio tests made by RAF wireless operators. Radio tests before lunch usually indicated a bomber being readied for a raid that evening. Jimmy Grimm’s ‘best bent wire’ signal was just one of the hundreds heard in Paris. The Luftwaffe’s No 1 Fighter Division HQ at Deelen was told unusually early to expect a heavy RAF attack that night.

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31.6.1943

GEHEIM

MELDEKOPF 1

FUNKBEFEHLSSTAND WEST

LUFTFLOTTE 3, HOH.NAFU

GLTD

HVO 1. JAGD-DIVISION

FUNKBEFEHLSSTAND MITTE

WIM – MELDUNG

RAF WITH APPROX 600–700 (AMONG THEM PERHAPS 90 TWO-MOTOR) EXPECTED TARGET WEST GERMANY

MELDEKOPF 1

BR.B.NR.3567/43 GEH

GEZ.BOFINGER,LT.