That sounds fascinating. If you liked that, you might like "The Ghost Army of WW2" that I read a couple months ago.I just finished reading "A Game of Birds and Wolves" by Simon Parkin. It deals with an element of the WWII Battle of the Atlantic that I was not previously aware of. It's a fascinating story.
The book documents the work of the female Naval Reserves, the Wrens, of the Royal Navy during the war. Their job was to "play" in the game that was used to teach anti-Uboat tactics to defend the convoys that were sailing back and forth to England. In effect they played a giant game of "Battleship" at the training facility against Royal Navy escort officers and captains of the merchant ships that made up the convoys. Needless to say, the officers and sea captains were not particularly receptive to being told that they needed to play a game against a bunch of women in their early twenties - most of whom had never been to sea at all - in order to learn how to operate their ships in the Atlantic.
But the light came on pretty quickly for these men. What they saw was that if they played the game commanding the surface vessels against the female Uboat commanders, the surface vessels got sunk. Likewise if the men played the game as Uboat commanders against the women commanding the surface ships, then the Uboats got sunk by the women on the surface. Fortunately they quickly acknowledged that the tactics the women used needed to be integrated into their plans.
These women played an important role in the efforts that protected the U.K from going past the tipping point that might have forced them to surrender early in the war. It took the combined effects of code breaking, improved air cover, massive production efforts, and the tactics developed at the anti Uboat school to prevent the submission of the U.K. Without what these women did, it might not have worked out they way it did.