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From: David Pike
Date: 2024 Nov 20, 03:18 -0800
Wolfgang Köberer you wrote:
Wielen, Roland und Ute Wielen, Astronomische Ephemeriden, Navigation und Krieg. The astonishing cooperation of the ephemeris institutes of Germany, England, France and the USA during the Second World War according to documents in the archive of the Astronomical Computing Institute. Edition of the Documents, Heidelberg 2016.
I found a link to the abstract in English for WW2 here. https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/22021/ . Presumably, assuming the people in the Institutes were not completely asleep, each side thought that the exchange was of greater advantage to themselves than to the enemy as was the decision not to jam Sonne in WW2 and the planned intention to swap rubber for optical glass early in WW1. …………………………... ------------------------------------------------------------------- ___________ .-.. . -.-. DaveP
