YT-T17 · Modern transcription of a wartime command diary

Commander-in-Chief Home Fleet war diary: March–April 1944

Training, attack composition, initial assessments and decision against an immediate repeat attack.

Author
Commander-in-Chief Home Fleet; modern transcription by Naval-History.Net
Date
March–April 1944
Passage
April summary, paragraph 139: Operation Tungsten

What has been checked

Full paragraph 139 read on 20 October 2026 and retained; compared with German damage reporting. Earlier research inspected the March–April readiness entries.

How to read it

Original Admiralty PDF could not be retrieved in this pass. Transcription is not a facsimile; immediate hit claims are not confirmed damage totals. Repeated history entries are not independent evidence.

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