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FOREIGN COUNTRIES (52): Admiralty views requested on US proposals for the recruitment...
Catalogue reference: ADM 1/15956
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This record is about the FOREIGN COUNTRIES (52): Admiralty views requested on US proposals for the recruitment... dating from 1944 in the series Admiralty, and Ministry of Defence, Navy Department: Correspondence and Papers. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- ADM 1/15956
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1944
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Description (What the record is about)
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FOREIGN COUNTRIES (52): Admiralty views requested on US proposals for the recruitment of (ex German Navy) Polish prisoners of war in USA for service with Polish Forces in UK
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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- M04909/1944
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- Public Record(s)
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- Open Document, Open Description
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