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The Bismarck and Prinz Eugen had sailed from the area Ile$' 'Berge~ Norway, the pi--CViq~-~~y~;-~-:,- ~t~;';::::-'. desperate British aerial reconnaissance flight late on 22 Mai _discovered that the shlps.h84 ¥.ft;·:1ller._::~i-::,::-.:. aircraft radioed its report to its base. The German~ intetcep.~d tb:e message, but did no\ ,i~rt~tl\is ·t(>. ~~ ... Bismarck until the next day. (It is possible that the original .inte~ept .w~. from a.~~~~:~::::·, .::.i-:.>: unit, which might explain the delay.) Furthermore, the Bismar~kwas .rwi info~~.:g~~~:~!.;:~~;~;,:'::,>· ,· from COMINT, the German naval staff knew that major.elements f.th¢: 8rlti~h.'n~~~: ~;[~~9~~'.1~";: · :.:· already had left in purswt. The task force commanders. we-re ,angry over ,this lapse: fu;'.t~rtu,tg~ ;B.~·~/: :~ . time, the Bismarck, shadowed .by two British cruisers, HMS Stijfo'/IJ. and HMS.Noefol,k;:. w•~~~-~J~;:, forcing a passage to the North Atlantic via the Denmark Straits. Wh~ther th~ ·G~~;~~K,~~¢;~~:::;:-:: .::· have continued on this voyage knowing that the British home fleet had sallied out th 'it(~·,h ·Q:f(_:~:_.;;:':::~:· ~: · i_.·· retreated to Norway, is unknown. · · · .: . _ ·:
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(U) On the morning of24 May, the B-Dienst teams aboard both the Bismarck_and-~c~>, ---> .. : ~-:·:·: Eugen intercepted the callsigns of two Royal Navy ~itafs~ps. One they could ide~~~;~_; __ -__:_/;-.·:: Hood. The other was new to them, but they could dt!termjtie from the call sign s.yst.e~ :tiiJ~(~·fw~~~-~~~F:: ~ ,;. battleship - it was the HMS Prince of Wales, which had d~arted with son:ie of i~ WQr~·~e'~f~tijF : .. ·< ·"'. ;.
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