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North Africa: Kesselring en route Benghazi Mar 4; GAF operations and intentions Mar...
Catalogue reference: HW 1/391
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This record is about the North Africa: Kesselring en route Benghazi Mar 4; GAF operations and intentions Mar... dating from 1942 Mar 6 in the series Government Code and Cypher School: Signals Intelligence Passed to the Prime Minister,.... It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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HW 1/391
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Date (When the record was created)
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1942 Mar 6
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Description (What the record is about)
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North Africa: Kesselring en route Benghazi Mar 4; GAF operations and intentions Mar 5-6; GAF reconnaissance orders for Mar 6; GAF report March 4; Parachute Artillery unit in Africa, Mar 5; GAF operations against railway to be on night of March 6-7.
Mediterranean: GAF reconnaissance and operations Mar 5.
Russian Front: GAF report Soviet parachutists Feb 28-Mar 1.
Turkish ambassador, Kuibyshev: shortages of food and transport difficulties in USSR, Mar 3.
Turkish ambassador, Tokyo: appointment of new Japanese ambassador to Moscow, Mar 3; Soviet fears of a Japanese attack, Mar 4.
Turkish ambassador, Berlin: RAF attack on ships at Kiel, Mar 4.
Spanish ambassador, London: Allied failure to resist in Timor, Mar 1; military failings in India, Feb 27.
Turkish ambassador, Vichy: impending German attack in Libya and tension on Franco-German relations, Mar 3.
Japanese minister, Madrid: Spanish-Portuguese relations over Timor, Feb 28.
Japanese ambassador, Ankara passes on a Spanish report of British unpopularity in Egypt, Mar 4.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
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5 items not on coversheet. Summary of Naval messages No 246 not included (to DNI under C/8897)
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- The National Archives, Kew
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Open Document, Open Description
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