SZ/AEAF/5/1 - G-2 SHAEF: Plans, comments and counter-comments
Reference code
SZ/AEAF/5/1
Level of description
Sub file
Title
G-2 SHAEF: Plans, comments and counter-comments
Date/s
1944
Quantity & Format
13 items
Scope and content
Contains 13 items covering the period May-August 1944 which include; appreciations issued in late May 1944 of the effectiveness of the programme of attacks on rail centres in support of Operation Overlord; proposals, in June 1944, for a programme of attacks on bridges, rail centres, and fuel and ammunition dumps in three lines of interdiction from the Seine-Loire gap to the Swiss border; a paper, written in late June 1944, setting out a plan for sealing off the V-weapon launching sites along the French and Belgian coasts by means of "rail interdiction" by air; a paper dated 29/66/44 evaluating the relative effectiveness of air attacks on fuel dumps and the oil supply system, military training camps and repair centres, and tank concentrations and equipping facilities, as means of weakening German armoured divisions west of Paris; and a memorandum to 21 Army Group, 5/8/44 from SHAEF's Operations Division (G-3) authorising the reconstruction of the Brest-Rennes rail route.
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SZ - Zuckerman Archive
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SZ/AEAF - [Allied Expeditionary Air Force]
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SZ/AEAF/5 - G-2 SHAEF [Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Forces, Intelligence Division]
- SZ/AEAF/5/1 - G-2 SHAEF: Plans, comments and counter-comments
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SZ/AEAF/5 - G-2 SHAEF [Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Forces, Intelligence Division]
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SZ/AEAF - [Allied Expeditionary Air Force]
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- SZ/AEAF/5/1/1 - Appreciation by G-2 and G-4 Divisions, SHAEF and R.R.S. of the effect of the present bombing programme against railway targets on the enemy rate of build-up in the early stages of "Overlord"
- SZ/AEAF/5/1/2 - Effects of Recent Attacks on Rail Centres in France, Belgium and Western Germany, 25/5/44
- SZ/AEAF/5/1/3 - Effects of recent attacks on rail centres on the enemy ability to supply and maintain forces in the bridgehead area, 24/5/44
- SZ/AEAF/5/1/4 - The use of air power against transport and military supplies, 7/6/44
- SZ/AEAF/5/1/5-8 - Attacks against enemy military transport and supplies in support of ground forces on the Western Front, 28/6/44
- SZ/AEAF/5/1/9-11 - [How to Seal off the CROSSBOW area so that the supply of projectiles to the launching area may be interrupted]
- SZ/AEAF/5/1/12 - Memorandum [to consider how the supply and maintenance of armoured divisions now concentrating West of Paris may best be weakened by air attacks], 29/6/44
- SZ/AEAF/5/1/13 - [Restriction on bombing major railway structures], 5/8/44