Mission
After completing training in The Hague, Erich Gimpel and William Colepaugh boarded U-1230 to sail for the United States to gather intelligence on the Manhattan Project and sabotage it. They also were tasked with gathering intelligence on shipyards, airplane factories, and rocket-testing facilities.
On November 29, 1944, after spending eight days resting on the ocean floor off the coast of Maine to avoid American patrols, the U-1230 passed into Frenchman Bay and Gimpel and Colepaugh came ashore. They made their way to New York City.
Read more about this topic: Operation Elster
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