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AI 1(k) Reports: Nos 3-200 (1940); information obtained from refugees and POWs [German]....
Catalogue reference: AIR 40/2962
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This record is about the AI 1(k) Reports: Nos 3-200 (1940); information obtained from refugees and POWs [German].... dating from 1940 Jan 01 - 1940 Dec 31 in the series Air Ministry, Directorate of Intelligence and related bodies: Intelligence Reports.... It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- AIR 40/2962
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- 1940 Jan 01 - 1940 Dec 31
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AI 1(k) Reports: Nos 3-200 (1940); information obtained from refugees and POWs [German].
Reports from interrogation of Prisoners of War captured in 1940 may include crew's names, identity disc number, field post number, dates and place of crash and type and identity numbers of aircraft. Reports include POWs from Europe, including Norway and Belgium.
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- The National Archives, Kew
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