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North Africa: Kesselring en route Benghazi Mar 4; GAF operations and intentions Mar...

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Date

1942 Mar 6

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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.

Note

5 items not on coversheet. Summary of Naval messages No 246 not included (to DNI under C/8897)

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Railways
Asia
Europe and Russia
Air Force
Weapons
Food and drink
Intelligence
Middle East
Operations, battles and campaigns
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