Focus on
Olga Gray and the Woolwich Arsenal Spy Ring
In 1938, thanks to years of work by a remarkable female agent, MI5 ensured a package of British defence plans stayed secret.
Piece
North Africa: Panzer Army request air strike, July 2; Panzer Army request urgent...
Catalogue reference: HW 1/690
What’s it about?
This record is about the North Africa: Panzer Army request air strike, July 2; Panzer Army request urgent... dating from 1942 Jul 2 in the series Government Code and Cypher School: Signals Intelligence Passed to the Prime Minister,.... It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
Access information is unavailable
Sorry, information for accessing this record is currently unavailable online. Please try again later.
Full description and record details
-
Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- HW 1/690
-
Date (When the record was created)
- 1942 Jul 2
-
Description (What the record is about)
-
North Africa: Panzer Army request air strike, July 2; Panzer Army request urgent air strike on El Alamein, July 2; GAF attack Abu Dweis, but unable to attack El Alamein, July 2.
Northern Europe: GAF report position of convoy, July 1; torpedo bomber attack ordered against convoy PQ17, July 2.
-
Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
-
Former department reference (Former identifier given by the originating creator)
- c/9908
-
Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
-
Closure status (Whether the record is ‘open’ (available to the public) or ‘closed’ (not available due to a legal exemption))
- Open Document, Open Description
-
Subjects (Categories and themes found in our collection (our subject list is under development, and some records may have no subjects or fewer than expected))
-
Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C4463916/
Series information
HW 1
Government Code and Cypher School: Signals Intelligence Passed to the Prime Minister,...
See the series level description for more information about this record.
Catalogue hierarchy
Over 27 million records
17,110 records
3,769 records
You are currently looking at the piece: HW 1/690
North Africa: Panzer Army request air strike, July 2; Panzer Army request urgent...
You may be interested in
Read stories that share a catalogue subject with this record.
-
-
Focus on
The Spycatcher affair
The book Spycatcher sparked one of the most controversial courtroom battles of the 1980s, bringing questions around state secrecy to a global audience. -
The story of
Anthony Blunt's confession
Security Service files paint a vivid picture of what happened when Anthony Blunt – then employed in the royal household – admitted spying for the Soviet Union.
Related records
Records that share similar topics with this record.