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Tank bridges to be completed in Benghazi by Nov 15. Yugoslavia: insurgents fighting...
Catalogue reference: HW 1/216
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HW 1/216
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1941 Nov 16
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Tank bridges to be completed in Benghazi by Nov 15.
Yugoslavia: insurgents fighting in Croatia, eastern and central Bosnia, Nov 12.
8th Air Corps preparing for destructive air attack on Rybinsk when weather improves, Nov 14.
Russian Front: German attacks in Crimea held up by lack of ammunition and weather conditions; German Army regrouping in Moscow area; Soviet attack from Leningrad repulsed with heavy losses, Nov 13.
4th Air Fleet operational orders for Nov 14: 11th Army entered Kerch; 4th Air Fleet to continue to support 11th Army and 1st Panzer Army.
Fifty single-engined aircraft to transfer to North Africa via Bari and Athens, beginning Nov 20.
RAF raids on Benghazi, Benina and Derna, Nov 13-14.
10th Air Corps short of transport aircraft, Nov 14.
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c/8068
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