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Bases and Ports - Scale and Nature of Attack

1 Sep 1947

Serial 1 2 3 4 5 6 Name and Location of Place to be Defended. (a) Degree and Reason for Importance to our War Effort (b) General Susceptibility to Damage Vulnerable Points. (c) Scale and Nature of Attack. Seaborne (d) 3 Air (e) Internal Sabotage. (f) GIBRALTAR Airfields: North Front Flying Boat Base MALTA Airfields: LUQA SAFI KRENDI TAKALI HAL FAR Flying Boat Base: KALAFRANA ADEN Airfields: ADEN KHORMAKSAR SHEIKH OTHMAN Flying Boat Base. TRINCOMALEE Airfields: CHINA BAY Flying Boat Base. SINGAPORE Airfields: CHANGI SELETAR TENGAH PALLANG HAIFA CATEGORY "A".

singapore india china argentina mauritius turkey jamaica bermuda egypt sudan iraq seychelles malta cyprus brunei gibraltar strategy australia colonies malaya foreign policy indochina military bases burma naval bases naval warfare ports ceylon siam great britain soviet union cold war palestine sicily contingency planning defence military intelligence security service coastal defence sabotage trinidad ministry of defence william hayter joint intelligence staff edward parry joint intelligence sub-committee chiefs of staff war preparations imperial defence british domestic security lawrence pendred percy sillitoe guiana paul gleadell predicting enemy intentions geographic intelligence assessing enemy strength douglas packard soviet navy colonial troops dockyards soviet army
Collection ID
CAB158
Conflict
Cold War
Countries
Argentina Australia Bermuda Brunei Burma Ceylon China Cyprus Egypt Gibraltar Great Britain Guiana India Indochina Iraq Jamaica Malaya Malta Mauritius Palestine Seychelles Siam Sicily Singapore Soviet Union Sudan Trinidad Turkey
Document Reference
CAB 158/2/23
Document Types
Report Memorandum
File Reference
CAB 158/2
Identifier
10.1080/swwf.cab158.0002.023
Keywords
Defence Imperial Defence Foreign Policy Coastal Defence Ports Military Bases Colonies Colonial Troops War Preparations Contingency Planning Predicting Enemy Intentions Geographic Intelligence Dockyards Naval Bases Naval Warfare Assessing Enemy Strength Soviet Army Soviet Navy Strategy Sabotage
Languages
English
Organizations
Chiefs of Staff Joint Intelligence Sub-Committee Joint Intelligence Staff Ministry of Defence Security Service
Pages
30
Persons Discussed
Paul Gleadell William Hayter Douglas Packard Edward Parry Lawrence Pendred Percy Sillitoe
Published in
United Kingdom
Series
Chiefs of Staff. Joint Intelligence Sub-Committee. Memoranda. January - September 1947. Papers Numbers JIC. 1-50. Volume XLV
Themes
Military Intelligence British Domestic Security

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