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North Africa: GAF report salvaging only 40 of aviation fuel barrels jettisoned by...
Catalogue reference: HW 1/281
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HW 1/281
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1941 Nov 30
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North Africa: GAF report salvaging only 40 of aviation fuel barrels jettisoned by Italian destroyers at Derna, Nov 29; GAF fuel return, Nov 29; GAF report arrival of supplies at Benghazi port, Nov 28; GAF General Geissler to meet Fieldmarshal Kesselring, Nov 30; shipping in Benghazi hit by RAF, Nov 28-29.
Mediterranean: Goering order of Nov 30 that aerodromes on Crete and Sicily are to be prepared for use by air torpedo aircraft; GAF Fieldmarshal Kesselring's planned movements, Nov 30; GAF report on shipping of supplies, Nov 29.
Russian Front: GAF intentions for night of Nov 29-30 in face of heavy Soviet attacks; GAF withdrawals from the fronts, Nov 29.
Possible move of fighter training group from Warsaw to France, Nov 28.
China: Chungking to London on proposed Japanese-US agreement, Nov 26.
Chinese ambassador, Washington, to London on Japanese-US conversations, Nov 27.
Japan: Tokyo on renewal of anti-Comintern Pact, Nov 25, PM comment.
Turkish minister, Berne, reports on Papal Nuncio's views on possibilities of peace, Nov 27.
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c/8209
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