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Soviet Air Force continuing air offensive activity against 2nd Gruppe (GAF). Request...

Catalogue reference: HW 1/42

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This record is about the Soviet Air Force continuing air offensive activity against 2nd Gruppe (GAF). Request... dating from 1941 Sept 3 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 1/42

Date

1941 Sept 3

Description

Soviet Air Force continuing air offensive activity against 2nd Gruppe (GAF).

Request to amalgamate German fighter groups refused by Goering: leave granted to air crews for whom there are no serviceable aircraft.

4th Air Fleet operational orders for Sept 3: crossing of Dniepr going to plan: 1st Panzer Gruppe widened bridgehead.

Limited GAF training facilities in south east Germany - bombs and aircraft equipment sent to Tripoli.

German aircraft operating from Elevsis, Derna and Heraklion to attack shipping in Gulf of Suez and northern Red Sea: Italian torpedoes to be used.

Naval Headlines: Admiral Scheer to be at entrance to Oslo fjord at dawn on Sept 3.

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The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference

c/7477

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Subjects
Topics
Shipping
Europe and Russia
Weapons
Intelligence
Navy
Middle East
Operations, battles and campaigns
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https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C4463270/

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