Report on Bombing in London Area
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23 Aug 1940ww2dbase
| USSR | Ref. No: 3/PPDT/T113 (previously issued as 3/NBF/T1776 on 17.3.1966) Issued: 19/5/1971 Copy No.: 10 |
(AUGUST 1940)
| From: | LONDON | |
| To: | MOSCOW | |
| No: | 930 | 23rd August 1940 |
To DZhON[i].
1. Today between 1455 and one o'clock in the morning the Germans bombed the industrial area of EDMONTON in north LONDON.
[45 groups unrecoverable]
pass through the coastal defences of the English and counter attacks by fighter aircraft. For this reason, it is said, the English do not hear the approach of the aircraft.
| No. 237 | DIK [ii] |
| Comments: | [i] | DZhON: Moscow addressee. |
| [ii] | DIK: ie. "DICK"; unidentified covername. |
Source(s):
United States National Security Agency
Added By:
C. Peter Chen
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