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BONIFACE, see HW 1/3740
Catalogue reference: HW 1/3743
Date: 1945 May 1
BONIFACE, see HW 1/3740
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North Africa: orders to Panzer Army Rommel for defence of Mareth Zone, Feb 8; proposals...
Catalogue reference: HW 1/1353
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This record is about the North Africa: orders to Panzer Army Rommel for defence of Mareth Zone, Feb 8; proposals... dating from 1943 Feb 9 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 1/1353
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1943 Feb 9
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North Africa: orders to Panzer Army Rommel for defence of Mareth Zone, Feb 8; proposals for division of effort for air support of 21st Panzer Division and 5th Panzer Army; GAF situation report for Feb 8: Allied forces advanced from El Assa area against 15th Panzer Division east of Taguelmit; aircraft available for operations, Feb 8; 2nd Air Fleet report Allied forces withdrawing from Gafsa, warn could be to set traps; GAF report Axis spearhead moving towards Gafsa; German Naval Command Rome reports numbers of serviceable tanks available to 5th Panzer Army; Feb 8 situation summary for Feb 8; Axis Reconnaissance units in Morra too weak to hold out against Allied attack, seeking reinforcement from 15th Panzer Division Feb 7; report of Allied air raid on Elmas airfield, Feb 7, airfield unserviceable; GAF support for offensive by 5th Panzer Army in area west and southwest of Kairouan, planned for Feb 10; Kesselring orders for vigorous attacks on Tripoli and Zuara harbours to prevent unloading and so delay attack by Allied 8th Army, Feb 6; explicit orders requested for taking of Gafsa, Feb 6.
Russian Front: Krasnodar to be evacuated on about Feb 12, airfields to be closed with effect from Feb 8 for destruction preparations.
Naval Headlines: U-boat contact made with Gibraltar bound convoy; German E-boats at Bizerta requested by Italian Admiralty to be ready for patrol against possible operations by HMS Manxman.
Naval Headlines of Feb 8: German naval formation leaving Trondheim Feb 4-5, included Admiral Hipper and Koeln, Hipper arrived Kiel Feb 7, Koeln delayed in Kattegat Feb 6; U-boat contacts with convoy SC118, U-boat success claims in Mediterranean.
Naval Headlines of Feb 7: Contacts with convoy SC118 and instructions for achieving success; Transfer of unloading organisation from Gabes to La Skira to be pressed forward.
British intelligence reports Rommel in hospital undergoing operation, Tunis, Feb 9; German General possibly Fischer blown up by Italian mine near Medjez El Bab.
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c/2244
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