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South Europe: GAF abandoning airfields in west Sicily, July 13; German supply bases...

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HW 1/1839
Date
1943 July 16
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South Europe: GAF abandoning airfields in west Sicily, July 13; German supply bases in west Sicily to be evacuated, July 14; unloading to cease at Palermo as main effort to be on eastern base, July 14; Kesselring orders seizure of Italian vehicles, July 14; GAF require to know if further dropping of paratroops is intended, July 14; paratroops to be dropped on July 14, He111 and Ju52 to be used, two reports; return on GAF airfields in west Sicily, July 13; Catania airfield not serviceable for landing, July 13; Reggio airfield closed by air attacks, July 12; Allied air attack on Chitarra airfield, July 13; Germans under heavy attack, Italians surrender Catania, July 14; Kesselring orders that no man is to leave Sicily, July 13; Germans appreciate Allies attacking in broken ground in Sicily, July 12; panic at Trapani, July 13; Italian coastal defence withdrawn from Catania, July 14; Germans prepare to destroy ration stocks at Palermo and Trapani, July 14; Hermann Goering Division ordered to restore situation at Catania, July 14; German Schmalz Brigade to withdraw from Lentini area on July 14; plans for 3 GAF bomber groups to move to Foggia area, July 13; unloading jetty at Molini destroyed by civilians, July 14.

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