| 1 | * HarsherInHindsight: |
| 2 | ** The trick of putting a fake mistake in a coded message didn't work well in real life because so many mistakes were made by hastily-trained wartime radio operators. There were several notorious incidents of British agents using this to let London know they'd been captured, only to be ignored. |
| 3 | ** The crew of one ship boarded by the real-life ''Atlantis'' failed to throw their weighted bag of top secret documents overboard because the officers concerned were killed during the attack. One of the documents was a detailed report on the weakness of British forces in the Far East in the event of war with Japan, which the Germans handed over to the Japanese government. |
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