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Special reports: the ports and towns of Zeebrugge and Brugge. Includes 40 photographs...
Catalogue reference: WO 252/396
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This record is about the Special reports: the ports and towns of Zeebrugge and Brugge. Includes 40 photographs... dating from 1943 Oct. in the series Admiralty, Inter-service Topographical Department, and Ministry of Defence, Joint.... It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- WO 252/396
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- 1943 Oct.
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Special reports: the ports and towns of Zeebrugge and Brugge.
Includes 40 photographs depicting: Interservice Topographical Department: ports and towns of Zeebrugge and Bruges, Belgium; beaches, piers, tidal basins and quays, streets, hotels, submarine pens, waterways and layout of bruges railway facilities. Composite photographs. Dated 1937-1943.
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- ISTD/C/246
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