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Comments on draft of Nigel de Grey's official history of GCCS at BP: notes of Dec...
Catalogue reference: HW 3/93
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HW 3/93
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1948-1950
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Comments on draft of Nigel de Grey's official history of GCCS at BP: notes of Dec 1948 from Peter Palmer and Eric Jones to de Grey on American Sigint effort with chart of probable air intelligence section in the Pentagon; comments of Nov 23 1949 to de Grey on The Americal Alliance chapter of his history, further comments of Dec 16 1949 from Frank Birch; exchanges between Birch and de Grey Nov 21-28 1949; manuscript comments on various chapters of the history by unknown editor; correspondence between de Grey, EW (Jumbo) Travis and Birch on de Grey's Story of the Bombe, Feb-Mar 1950; further exchanges between Birch and de Grey on the chapter on the Bombe, Mar-May 1950; information on Bombes taken from Mr Fletcher's private files by Monica Zambra for de Grey, June 1950
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