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Willecke's signed 21 August report states that the weather was calm during the attempted engine-and-helm response and that the anchor bearings were unchanged; the Air Ministry Daily Weather Report records only Beaufort 0-4 at Manston across 19-20 August, so the later Force 8 causal account is contradicted by the best available near-event evidence.
Claim record CLM-0299 in the public UNEXPLODED archive.
Claim: CLM-0299
Willecke's signed 21 August report states that the weather was calm during the attempted engine-and-helm response and that the anchor bearings were unchanged; the Air Ministry Daily Weather Report records only Beaufort 0-4 at Manston across 19-20 August, so the later Force 8 causal account is contradicted by the best available near-event evidence.
Status: verified | Confidence: high | Date: 1944-08-20
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