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Government Code and Cypher School: Signals Intelligence Passed to the Prime Minister, Messages and Correspondence

25 Sep 1942

A file of signals intelligence reports, messages, and correspondence issued by the Government Code and Cypher School and sent by the head ('C') of the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) to the Prime Minister, Winston Churchill. This file includes the following reports on North Africa: of German Air Force (GAF) losses in a British raid on an aerodrome, during the night of September 23-24; that the GAF are suffering intolerable losses from British attacks on their aerodromes, on September 23; that the Panzer Army has now been re-designated the German-Italian Panzer Army, as of September 23; and that any reference to the military significance of German physics lectures has been forbidden; on the Southern Russian Front: GAF operational orders for September 23; 1441/T12 was sent to the Assistant Chief of Air Staff Intelligence (ACASI) under 874.
second world war casualties military intelligence royal air force military organisation airfields scientific experts effects of bombing government code and cypher school operations planning erwin rommel german air force aerial attacks battle of stalingrad
Collection ID
HW1
Conflict
Second World War
Document Reference
HW1 /922/2
Document Types
Intelligence Report
File Reference
HW1 /922
Identifier
10.1080/swwf.hw1.0922.002
Keywords
Casualties Effects Of Bombing Royal Air Force Aerial Attacks Airfields Military Organisation Scientific Experts Operations Planning German Air Force Battle Of Stalingrad
Languages
English
Organizations
Government Code and Cypher School
Pages
10
Persons Discussed
Erwin Rommel
Published in
United Kingdom
Themes
Military Intelligence