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Anti-aircraft 3rd Brigade to move to Romania for operations in Ploesti area: anti-aircraft...
Catalogue reference: HW 1/78
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This record is about the Anti-aircraft 3rd Brigade to move to Romania for operations in Ploesti area: anti-aircraft... dating from 1941 Sept 20 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 1/78
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1941 Sept 20
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Anti-aircraft 3rd Brigade to move to Romania for operations in Ploesti area: anti-aircraft defence in Romania and Bulgaria to be subordinated to 10th Anti Aircraft Division.
Aircraft mines for use in Black Sea reported to be unusable.
Aerodrome Regional Command Zagred informed that cement not steel bombs to be used in GYPSY BARON and would be supplied by GAF Equipment Group 17.
Evening report of 1st Panzer Group, Sept 19. Soviet attacks on Piryatin-Lokhvitsa road repulsed, local resistance met elsewhere.
German report on shipping movements in Mediterranean, Sept 18: Pietrino attacked, auxiliary vessel Filuccio sunk, large convoy reported being assembled in Gibraltar for Mediterranean, Vulcania arrived in Tripoli, Sept 18.
Circular from 5th Air Fleet to various authorities in Norway describing Soviet phosphorous incendiary bombs and the method of dealing with them.
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c/7596
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