I was just reading the October 2005 issue of WWII magazine. There was an interesting article on the secret submarine missions to Europe by the Japanese. It seems that the Germans gave quite a bit of tech to the Japanese. It was a good thing that alot of the subs were sunk before they could make it back to Japan.According to the article the Germans sent in one shipment, 50 Enigma machines,a complete Wurzburg air defence ground radar with bluprints,examples of German torpedoes,bombs and fire control systems along with 1 million yen of industrial diamonds. The sub was sunk before the items could be dilivered though.The Japanese did deliver blueprints of the Type 91 torpedo to the Germans. On a 2nd shipment the Germans sent 20 more Enigma machines, a HWK 509A-1 rocket motor,a Jumo 004B axial-flow turbojet,Blueprints for the ME-163 and Me-262 and a V-1 fuselage.Also sent were drawings for the Isotta-Fraschini torpedo boat engine and acoustic mines. That sub too was sunk before it could deliver. Though the blueprints for the Me-163 and Me-262 was taken off before that happened. I wonder how the war would have been affected if they had made it? Do you think that if the Japanese had received the Enigma machines instead of them being sunk on the way to them would that have caused a problem for the Allied intelligence agencies?

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