Operation Berlin's route is reconstructed through a Royal Navy postwar map held by the UK National Archives. The map combines British ships' logs with German movement data acquired after the war, allowing historians to see where opposing forces actually passed. One account has HMS Cumberland's former captain striking a wall after discovering how narrowly his ship missed Admiral Graf Spee, while another describes him as stony-faced. The differing versions make the anecdote a small lesson in handling conflicting testimony. The map establishes the geographic evidence behind the operational analysis that follows.
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Postwar records reconstruct the Atlantic picture
A Royal Navy postwar map combines British logs with German movement data, revealing near misses that participants could not see at the time.