Dick's Visit to Kenley Air Station
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20 Aug 1940ww2dbase
USSR | Reference: 3/PPDT/T43 |
From: | LONDON | |
To: | MOSCOW | |
No: | 915 | 20th Aug. 40 |
To JOHN [DZhON][i].
On 18th AUgust the SAUSAGE-DEALERS [KOLBASNIKI][ii] bombed KENLEY Aerodrome. I was there today. I could not get onto the aerodrome since all the roads are closed and guarded by soldiers. Soldiers and machine-gun nests are dispersed round the aerodrome in bushes and trenches [iii]. Fuel tanks are concealed in bushes. Near the aerodrome there are bombed-out houses. A squadron of HURRICANES patrols in formation above the aerodrome the whole time in flights of three aircraft. Passers-by have their [illegible] checked. There was no panic among the population during an alert.
No. 233 | DICK [DIK][iv] |
Comments: | [i] | JOHN: Unidentified MOSCOW addressee 6th July 1940 - 16th September 1940. |
[ii] | SAUSAGE-DEALERS: the Germans. | |
[iii] | These security measures may have been connected with CHURCHILL's visit to KENLEY on 22nd August 1940 (W. S. CHURCHILL, The Second World War, Vol. II, p.584 in Cassell's edition). | |
[iv] | DICK: Covername of unidentified LONDON signatory and addressee between 6th July 1940 and 11th October 1940. |
Source(s):
United States National Security Agency
Added By:
C. Peter Chen
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