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North Africa: GAF plans to attack Allied convoy landing at Philippeville on Nov 10,...
Catalogue reference: HW 1/1085
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This record is about the North Africa: GAF plans to attack Allied convoy landing at Philippeville on Nov 10,... dating from 1942 Nov 11 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 1/1085
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1942 Nov 11
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North Africa: GAF plans to attack Allied convoy landing at Philippeville on Nov 10, Algiers to be attacked as alternative target; French Naval Command at Oran to scuttle merchant ships to block harbour, Allied forces moving in on town, Nov 9; GAF fuel supply flights to Tobruk end on Nov 9 and transport aircraft start flying out equipment and ammunition at start of evacuation, supply ships to be routed to Benghazi or Tripoli instead of Tobruk; GAF plans for Nov 10, attack Allied landing force or Allied ships off Algiers, watch for Allied landing force off Tunis; Allied convoys sighted east of Algiers, Nov 9; details of GAF deployments to Tunis; GAF plans for Nov 10 changed to main attack to be against Allied ships unloading at Algiers; GAF units to withdraw to Benghazi, Nov 9; auxiliary vessels at Tripoli to sail to Benghazi for possible removal of materials, Nov 9; new GAF organisation to come into force with airfields at Agheila, Arco, Merduma and Nofilia, Nov 9; GAF preparing to evacuate equipment from Benghazi to Tripoli, Nov 9; Germans preparing to establish new sea transport HQ at Tunis, Nov 8; Tobruk and combat zone expected to be without ammunition on Nov 10, supplies to be flown from Derna and Benghazi; general order from Goering admonition of GAF fighter pilots and call to save German honour
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