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Tuesday, 1 April 2025

Allied minesweepers berthed at Alexandria, Egypt according to a letter of the German naval attaché at Istanbul dated 13 April 1940

In his letter dated Istanbul, Turkey 13 April 1940 No. 838 reported the German naval attaché in Turkey to the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht at Berlin that according to a reliable source between November 1939-middle of January some minesweepers were berthed at Alexandria, Egypt.

Source

Bundesarchiv. German Marineattaché for Turkey, Greece, Romania and Bulgaria 1939-1941. RM 12-II/459. 

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