Lofoten Islands raids

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Lofoten Islands raids, mounted against these Norwegian islands by British commandos on 4 March 1941 and again on 26 December after Norway had been occupied by the Germans the previous year. In the first attack factories producing glycerine were destroyed. More importantly, the current settings for an ENIGMA machine were found aboard a German armed trawler. This coup enabled the British government's Code and Cypher School at Bletchley Park to break the German naval ENIGMA traffic (see ULTRA, 1) for the previous month. It also resulted in the capture of two German weather ships (see meteorological intelligence) which in turn yielded material that helped Bletchley read the naval ENIGMA traffic for July 1941. The second raid helped divert German attention during another commando operation against Vaagso.

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