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I thought Gott was killed in a Plane Crash. I don't think he was shot down Tomdidiot 12:59, 21 August 2006 (UTC)

He was shot down in a targeted German attack made possible by the breaking of the code used in telecommunications from Cairo, which disclosed to the Germans his intended movements. This was an embarrassment to the British authorities, who misreported his death at the time as an accident. The pilot of his plane, Squadron Leader Jimmy James, survived, and gave a lecture at the Travellers Club about the whole episode recently. Chelseaboy 11:01, 21 November 2006 (UTC)

http://www.secondworldwarforum.com/2006/07/24/the-truth-behind-the-death-of-general-gott/#more-36 : Jimmy James, the pilot of the plane on which Gott died, found out later that the pilots of the German planes had been told that Gott had been on the plane that they'd just shot down even before news of it had reached the British. He concluded that the Germans had known in advance that Gott was on the plane. -- ZScarpia (talk) 11:48, 29 February 2008 (UTC)

http://www.gaiaselene.com/Scripts/rommel.htm discusses the intelligence sources used by Rommel. http://www.armchairgeneral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=25828 describes how the Germans had come to possess three RAF coding machines. -- ZScarpia (talk) 12:02, 29 February 2008 (UTC)