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Mediterranean: report of June 20 that no units of Hermann Goering Division were to...
Catalogue reference: HW 1/1753
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This record is about the Mediterranean: report of June 20 that no units of Hermann Goering Division were to... dating from 1943 June 21 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 1/1753
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1943 June 21
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Mediterranean: report of June 20 that no units of Hermann Goering Division were to cross Messina Straits en route to Sicily before late on June 21, operation interrupted by declaration of Alert Stage 3; mechanised transport of Hermann Goering Division ferried across Straits of Messina to Sicily on June 19 despite Allied raid on Reggio that day; personnel return for GAF units on Sardinia totalling some 7500 men, June 19; suggestion that at least some personnel from Hermann Goering Division were in Sardinia, June 19; contingency measures to protect Omodeo reservoir in Sardinia from Allied air attack, June 19; status of GAF airfields in Sardinia, Elmas mined and would not be used in future; Allied air attack against Reggio harbour and railway, June 19; GAF air and sea situation report for June 19, including German agent reports of some 250 Allied ships leaving Oran, Arzeu and Moscagnem on June 18, Allied air attacks against San Giovanni and Reggio on 19th.
Portuguese ambassador, London: likely progress of the war as seen from London and the British insistence on unconditional surrender, June 17, recommends no Portuguese démarche to Britain in favour of special treatment for Italy.
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c/3602
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Open Document, Open Description
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