Carrier pigeon (1 Viewer)

[Guy]

We all know about the carrier pigeon found after 68 years in a chimney in Surrey last month. The pigeon was carrying a coded message.It was sent from Normandy to the RAF headquarters by sergeant William Scott a British para on the 6th june 1944. Canadian code experts managed to translate it .
The text reads as follows :
Artillery observer at"K" sector, Normandy.Requested headquarters supplement report.Panzer attack-blitz. West artillery observer tracking attack.
Lt Knows extra guns are here. Know where local dispatch station is. Determined where Jerry's HQ front posts.Right battery HQ right here.
Found infantry HQ right here. Final note confirming, found Jerry's whereabouts.Go over field notes. Counter measures against panzers not working.
Jerry's right battery central HQ right here.Artillery observer at "K" sector Normandy. Mortar, infantry attack panzers.
Hit Jerry's right or reserve battery here.Already know electrical engineers HQ. Troops, panzers, batteries, engineers here. Final note known to HQ.
There are still a few parts missing from the message. They think the paratrooper left some words out on purpose.
Sergeant Willian Scott was killed a week later unfortunately.
This really is a little piece of history !!!!
guy

 

[TomB]

We all know about the carrier pigeon found after 68 years in a chimney in Surrey last month. The pigeon was carrying a coded message.It was sent from Normandy to the RAF headquarters by sergeant William Scott a British para on the 6th june 1944. Canadian code experts managed to translate it .
The text reads as follows :
Artillery observer at"K" sector, Normandy.Requested headquarters supplement report.Panzer attack-blitz. West artillery observer tracking attack.
Lt Knows extra guns are here. Know where local dispatch station is. Determined where Jerry's HQ front posts.Right battery HQ right here.
Found infantry HQ right here. Final note confirming, found Jerry's whereabouts.Go over field notes. Counter measures against panzers not working.
Jerry's right battery central HQ right here.Artillery observer at "K" sector Normandy. Mortar, infantry attack panzers.
Hit Jerry's right or reserve battery here.Already know electrical engineers HQ. Troops, panzers, batteries, engineers here. Final note known to HQ.
There are still a few parts missing from the message. They think the paratrooper left some words out on purpose.
Sergeant Willian Scott was killed a week later unfortunately.
This really is a little piece of history !!!!
guy
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The original message and the group letter code the author found in a code book from WW11.....Nice....but...no location grid references of enemy position...all appears to be pre-determined locations....What ...I cannot understand ....when you look at the original coded Arty map...all the numbered grid squares....the total number at the bottom of the map.....the four multi numbered squares in place of a letter...AND...the fact it was a ARTY Map....you would expect;... grid tgts... reference's to be given......looks like a very-very clever way to disguise a very simple group letter code to confuse the enemy...my humble -confused reading of the code translation...TomB