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Mediterranean/Southern Europe: GAF reconnaissance results on June 21, of sabotage...

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This record is about the Mediterranean/Southern Europe: GAF reconnaissance results on June 21, of sabotage... dating from 1943 June 22 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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1943 June 22

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Mediterranean/Southern Europe: GAF reconnaissance results on June 21, of sabotage on Athens - Salonica railway line and of Tobruk - Sidi Barrani area; Germans achieve major success in ferrying men and materials across Straits of Messina, Italians asked to emulate this performance on June 21; 8 GAF auxiliary airfields in Sicily to be activated June 19 for formation of fighter concentration areas; GAF requests delivery of temporary bridge to Greece to ease fuel supply problems after bridges sabotaged, June 21; Italian tanker to take fuel to Piraeus to help alleviate fuel supply problems in Greece following sabotage of bridges, June 21; more sabotage of railway installations in Greece, night of June 20/21, new GAF fighter unit now based near Brindisi, June 21

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