Weather Station Kurt, Meteorological station in Martin Bay, Labrador, Canada.
Weather Station Kurt is an automatic meteorological station in Martin Bay, Labrador, Canada. The installation consists of a transmitter unit and ten cylindrical containers housing instruments for temperature, wind speed, and atmospheric pressure.
German submarine U-537 installed the station in October 1943 during a secret mission. It was the only German military operation on North American mainland during the Second World War.
The station carries the codename Kurt and remained undetected until 1981, when a German historian proved its origin. Today it stands as evidence of wartime technical deception.
The installation was designed to send meteorological data every three hours through an integrated radio system powered by nickel-cadmium batteries. The preserved equipment and instruments are now housed at the Canadian War Museum in Ottawa.
The German crew scattered American cigarette packages around the station and applied false Canadian markings to hide its origin. These deception measures helped the station remain unnoticed for decades.
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