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16th Panzer Division to cross Dniepr at Kremenchug on Sept 11. GAF aircraft to mine...

Catalogue reference: HW 1/61

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This record is about the 16th Panzer Division to cross Dniepr at Kremenchug on Sept 11. GAF aircraft to mine... dating from 1941 Sept 11 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 1/61

Date

1941 Sept 11

Description

16th Panzer Division to cross Dniepr at Kremenchug on Sept 11.

GAF aircraft to mine Novorossisk Harbour.

Soviet attempts to destroy Pontoon bridge at Dniepropetrovsk by burning oil ships.

Heavy Soviet attacks against west sector of Dniepropetrovsk beaten back.

Aviation fuel stocks at Tripoli running.

Steamers Nirvo, Cafaro and Bainsizza carrying munitions, supplies and parts, left Naples for Tripoli Sept 10 in convoy escorted by six destroyers.

10th Air Corps intentions for Sept 11 included night attack on Suez harbour installations and shipping.

Ex Yugoslav submarine chasers Zuri, Selve and Zirona left Patras for Benghazi on Sept 9.

Naval Headlines: British destroyers attacked German convoy in Barents Sea, possibility of Italian operations off the coast of Cyrenaica.

21st Panzer Division, Pavia Division in Cyrenaica.

PM from CIGS: response to query to armoured divisions in Africa.

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The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference

c/7543

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Subjects
Topics
Shipping
Air Force
Oil and gas
Weapons
Intelligence
Navy
Middle East
Armed Forces (General Administration)
Operations, battles and campaigns
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