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Development of decoy targets in south east Germany. Urgent requirement for return...
Catalogue reference: HW 1/50
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This record is about the Development of decoy targets in south east Germany. Urgent requirement for return... dating from 1941 Sept 6 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 1/50
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1941 Sept 6
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Development of decoy targets in south east Germany.
Urgent requirement for return of tank trucks due to shortage.
GAF repeat instructions forbidding flying over aerodrome at Regensburg Obertraubling.
Weather flight report included reference to coal stocks burning and coal mines destroyed in Spitzbergen, Sept 5.
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- The National Archives, Kew
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- c/7490
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