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Description

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: BONIFACE summaries for Mr Loxley (see 6748 and 6749).

Keywords

military situation reports, Operation Overlord, Battle of Normandy, United States Army, breakthroughs, German army, military discipline, military shortages, troop movements, German strategy, military dispositions, sabotage, railways, Italian Campaign, German withdrawal, predicting enemy intentions, amphibious operations, occupied Italy, effects of bombing, ports, demolitions