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Spanish Blue Division positioned between Minsk and Smolensk 200 km behind the front....
Catalogue reference: HW 1/96
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This record is about the Spanish Blue Division positioned between Minsk and Smolensk 200 km behind the front.... dating from 1941 Sept 28 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 1/96
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1941 Sept 28
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Spanish Blue Division positioned between Minsk and Smolensk 200 km behind the front.
Report to 1st Air Fleet's sub-tender Mosel sunk in Baltic and White Seas Sept 27.
Report of German submarine chaser torpedoed north of Hammerfest Sept 27.
Paratroops for the Leningrad Front.
Heavy fighting in Perekop Isthmus 11th Army gaining ground: 1st Panzer Group captured Novo-Moskovsk north of Dniepropetrovsk Sept 28.
Soviet counter attack stopping German advance in front of Armyansk with Soviet 2nd Division putting left flank of Ahorn Division to flight, Romanian units in state of panic Sept 27.
Indefinite postponement of Italian convoy Caterina and towing of Circe from Tripoli Sept 27.
Italian fleet at sea in Mediterranean north of Bizerta.
French aircraft reported troop convoy in western Mediterranean heading eastward Sept 27.
Successes claimed for Italian torpedo bombers against British naval formation Sept 27.
Sighting of British fleet in western Mediterranean Sept 26 and Sept 27.
Two Italian torpedo boats earmarked for Operation B for morning of Sept 29.
Italian minesweepers to be armed against air attacks Sept 27.
SS Tembien hit by three bombs but still able to remain with convoy Sept 23.
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c/7667
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