The first combat success of radar used a German "experimental Freya radar" to detect unescorted RAF bombers approaching the German Bight en route to Wilhelmshaven.
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It was decided that small vessels, torpedo boats and U-boats, should be transported from the German bight via the Danube to the Black Sea.
This was of strategic importance for attacks on the Germanic people living on the Frisian coasts and along the Elbe estuary in the German Bight.