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North Africa: further GAF units deployed to Tunis, Nov 10; due to of communications...
Catalogue reference: HW 1/1084
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HW 1/1084
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1942 Nov 11
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North Africa: further GAF units deployed to Tunis, Nov 10; due to of communications problems, Rommel refuses to take over command of Italian troops in eastern Cyrenaica, Nov 8; Panzer Army reversals and continues in retreat Nov 9; all dispensable German personnel and equipment at Tobruk and Benghazi to be sent to Tripoli; details of planned westward deployment of GAF units, Nov 11, bulk of equipment to be left behind; Allied advance forces German evacuation east of Tobruk and El Adem, Nov 10, extra transport aircraft being sent to Tobruk to assist; GAF reports suggest Allies to occupy Tobruk by late on Nov 12; in face of Allied advance, Panzer Army to retreat to the west, Nov 11; GAF combat plans for Nov 11; German withdrawal west of Agedabia possible as early as Nov 13; Kesselring insists late on Nov 10 that GAF support for withdrawal of Panzer Army was life or death issue and that British at Sidi Omar should be destroyed or at least delayed; successful Beaufighter attack against Tunis airfield, Nov 10; all Vichy merchant ships to leave Algiers and Tunis harbours for home-ports in France; Panzer Army pulling back to Tobruk, Nov 10; GAF successful bombing attack against Allied aircraft carrier, Nov 10; GAF report for Nov 9; shortage of aviation fuel curtails airlift from Benghazi, Greece and Crete in support of Panzer Army, Nov 9; Panzer Army report for Nov 9; Germans expecting Allied landing at Philippeville, possibly early Nov 10, GAF battle HQ at Tunis to arrange dawn attack; Kesselring threatens to court-martial GAF officers retaining transport aircraft in Africa and not returning them to Europe, Nov 9; IAF 5th Air Corps planned deployments, Nov 10
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