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South Europe: Kesselring gives Brigade Schmalz in Catania area additional forces,...
Catalogue reference: HW 1/1831
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This record is about the South Europe: Kesselring gives Brigade Schmalz in Catania area additional forces,... dating from 1943 July 14 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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Date (When the record was created)
- 1943 July 14
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South Europe: Kesselring gives Brigade Schmalz in Catania area additional forces, July 13; Brigade Schmalz to receive mobile reserve of Hermann Goering Division, July 13; Monte Corvino airfield, Naples, losses in Allied raid, July 13; Monte Corvino losses, July 12; GAF situation report on Sicily, July 12; German troops to destroy Canicatti, July 11; Allied infantry advancing south of Canicatti, July 12; Goering Division loses 200 men, July 12; GAF to attack in Syracuse-Augusta area with only weak forces on July 13; German air landing reinforcements arrive in Sicily, July 12; heavy fighting in Augusta area, July 12; worthwhile targets for GAF long range bombers in Augusta area, July 13; GAF low level attack on US advance, July 13; C-in-C situation report for June 30, GAF attack on Bone harbour night of June 29-30
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- The National Archives, Kew
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- c/3858
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- Europe and Russia
- Intelligence
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