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Dniepropetrovsk bridge and town under artillery fire from Germans. Soviet attacks...
Catalogue reference: HW 1/35
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This record is about the Dniepropetrovsk bridge and town under artillery fire from Germans. Soviet attacks... dating from 1941 Aug 31 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 1/35
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1941 Aug 31
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Dniepropetrovsk bridge and town under artillery fire from Germans.
Soviet attacks on Dniepropetrovsk bridgehead.
Goering anxious for fighter protection (at bridgehead).
German 11th Army making progress at Berislav.
Plans for 11th Army attack on Isthmus of Perekop, between Crimea and mainland.
Germans believe Soviet 24th Army to be planning attacks south east of Smolensk.
Group 'Schmidt' to continue its attacks in direction of Schluesselburg, east of Leningrad.
Special efforts being made to get aviation fuel from Tripoli to aerodromes in Cyrenaica.
Quantities of fuel dispatched for GAF from Tripoli to Cyrenaica.
Report on British air activity on Libyan Front: from photo recce of Aug 26; report of collision of two British cruisers Frobisher and Shropshire off Mersa Matruh.
U-boats to be withdrawn from north Norway to facilitate air attacks on British submarines in the area.
German Police Officer Commanding in areas of Corinthia and Krains, requests retention of 171 Reserve Police Battalion.
Report of use of German police forces in back areas on Russian Front: including bridge repairs, traffic control and road protection: lists of prisoners taken, bandits, partisans and Jews shot.
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c/7456
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Open Document, Open Description
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