Catalogue description South Europe: Allied raid on GAF Comiso airfield, July 8; Allied raids on Sicily, July...

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Details of HW 1/1809
Reference: HW 1/1809
Description:

South Europe: Allied raid on GAF Comiso airfield, July 8; Allied raids on Sicily, July 8; no damage during Allied raid, July 8; 17 raids on GAF Comiso, July 8; Allied raids cause heavy damage to Catania, July 8; GAF units to transfer from Sicily to mainland, July 8; Italian Admiralty orders aircraft to carry out anti-submarine patrols, July 8; GAF evacuate stocks of aircraft torpedoes and bomb-mines from Sicily and Sardinia, July 7; ammunition from ship to be unloaded on Sardinia, remainder to be returned to Italy, July 7; ammunition to be flown from Sicily and Sardinia, July 8; state of alarm on Sicily cancelled, July 8; German ground situation report up to July 5, enemy order of battle, British 1st Airborne Division moving; Allied convoy sighted, July 8; GAF to make sea reconnaissance for convoy on July 9; GAF report convoy, July 8

Date: 1943 July 9
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: c/3805
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description

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