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Southern Europe: transport movements for Hermann Goering Division, July 16; naval...

Catalogue reference: HW 1/1855

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HW 1/1855
Date
1943 July 20
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Southern Europe: transport movements for Hermann Goering Division, July 16; naval stocks of diesel fuel at Palermo and Trapani to be transferred to Messina Straits area, July 18; British submarine sinks Italian vessel off mouth of the Tiber, July 19; advance arrangements to be made at Palermo for destruction of Italian warships, July 19; GAF target for early July 20 to be warships at Syracuse and Augusta; Axis bombing attacks planned for night July 19 to be shipping at Valetta with alternative targets at Syracuse and Catania; situation report for July 19 in Sicily; C-in-C South, intelligence department, appreciated that main Allied effort would continue to be with 8th Army, July 18

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Former department reference
c/3922
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Open Document, Open Description
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C4465083/

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