Catalogue description Mediterranean/Southern Europe: transfer of Hermann Goering division from Italy to Sicily...

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Details of HW 1/1761
Reference: HW 1/1761
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Mediterranean/Southern Europe: transfer of Hermann Goering division from Italy to Sicily proceeding slowly as at June 21, more details of units transferred to Sicily, June 21; approach to train ferry destroyed in Allied air raid on Reggio, June 21; GAF airfields and installations in Sicily, Sardinia and southern Italy to be prepared for instant destruction to prevent them being used by the Allies, June 22; planned disposition of Axis fortress battalions on Sicily, June 21; serious damage reported in Naples June 22 following Allied raid; results of Allied air attacks against Reggio, Palermo, Messina and San Giovanni, June 19 and 21; GAF 2nd Air Corps moving from Sicily to Salerno, June 21; readiness alert stage 2 in vicinity of Sicily and in effect on June 20 cancelled on 21st; report of June 19 giving detailed plans for all Axis shipping movements in Aegean and Adriatic areas for week June 20-27; GAF aware of Allied landing exercises off Bizerta June 22, GAF to reconnoitre the area on 23rd; GAF VIP visiting Romania on June 24, German station commanders there to meet for conference that day; detailed report of Axis and guerilla activity in Yugoslavia and Greece on June 19; more bridges sabotaged in Greece, June 21.

11 fronts: Hitler orders the German General Staff to inspect coastal anti-tank defences in all areas apart from the Russian Front, June 19.

Russian Front: Axis air attacks against Russian military and industrial targets, June 20-21.

Date: 1943 June 23
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: c/3627
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description

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