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[Rogi Ocnorb]

Using Google maps, the coordinates for enigma9 in Lorient are smack-dab in the middle of a large circular structure that looks like it may include a boat launching facility, but doesn't look like part of the old Nazi submarine base (Keroman).
Any ideas what the structure is?

[Perko]

ENIGMA 8 - I'VE GOT IT!

[tipsila]

Oh, and I thought I had found something interesting..

[Perko]

[Rogi Ocnorb]

Hemmingway's (38 foot) boat was named "pilar".

Good solve!

On the next one, I think the "U" may be reference to "U-Boat", but the numbers aren't in the right range. They almost look like more coordinates.

ETA: The parenthetic entry referenced in the next question.

[ALISDAIRPARK]

I guess Pilar was a 38 footer?

[apcfreak]

[ALISDAIRPARK]

Playing around with the numbers as coords,
EDIT for most likely:
34.057 -35.011 mid Atlantic.
46.035 -11.055 in the Bay of Biscay
48.031 -22005 about the same spot, but a bit further out
43.026 -38.023 is in the Atlantic again
46.030 -03.008 is in the Bay of Biscay

[Perko]

[Perko]

[Rogi Ocnorb]

This base is where the Nazis filled a Japanese Imerpial submarine with all their secrets for atomic weapons, aircraft design and about 40 Enigma machines and sent it off to Japan to share secrets with their only "ally".
"U" could be a reference to Unicode and we may be looking for a Japanese phrase in Kanji or something like that.

Edit: Okay, that may not have gone so well. (Wish I could tell. I don't even know if it's Japanese ). Hope this displays okay on the forum:
蔉
裃
돓
⬯
뮟
嗵
ꠒ
钇
돎
ீ

Edit2:
Bay of Biscay Sub Sinkings: http://www.uboat.net/maps/biscay.htm
From the mother site at: http://www.uboat.net/maps/index.html

[tipsila]

Hmm, all I can see are large question marks - which fit the situation as far as I'm concerned

I was thinking the U**** just stood for UBOAT. See statement above.

U-Boat Operations: Sinkings Index

[Perko]

Not loving the Japanese angle, I think we're most likely looking for 5 specific U-boat #s, probably sunk, probably operating out of Lorient. German U-boats have unique 3-4 digit codes assigned to them, so multiplying out 5 of them seems viable to get a numeric answer suitable as a key. The work is matching the co-ordinates to specific boats. This site:

http://uboat.net/flotillas/listing.htm

seems to have a pretty complete database of U-boats, and the ones that sank have the coordinates listed. They were organized in flotillas. The 2nd and 10th flotilla operated out of Lorient, but there were 91 and 80 U-boats assigned to these, so that's a lot of work to go through. If we can find one ore two, it may become clear they have something else in common. They were probably sunk as a result of Enigma, for starters.

The 10th flotilla seems to be the better documented, and several of them even have wikipedia entries:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/10._Unterseebootsflottille

[Perko]

[Perko]