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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

Reference code
SZ/AEAF/5/1/5-8
Level of description
Item
Title
Attacks against enemy military transport and supplies in support of ground forces on the Western Front, 28/6/44
Date/s
1944
Quantity & Format
4 leaves
Scope and content
Draft typescripts, with MS corrections and amendments in SZ's hand. Item [SZ/AEAF/5/1/5] is heavily amended and annotated by SZ "1st Draft. G2 Shaef? 24/6/44", with attached a printed map of Northwest France at scale 1:2,934,000 (1 inch = 46.3 miles) labelled "SHAEF Rail Bridges Interdiction" and with reference to 'SHAEF Inderdiction Handbook, Part II'. The other three copies [SZ/AEAF/5/1/6-8] are all dated 28/6/44, [SZ/AEAF/5/1/6] is incomplete; [SZ/AEAF/5/1/8] has an MS list, "Appendix B. Rail Centres and Junctions" attached.

The paper sets out a plan of attacks on bridges, rail centres and junctions, and ammunition and final dumps, in three lines of interdiction: the Seine - Loire gap; a line from Elaples to Leaz (on the Swiss border); and a line from Antwerp to Besaucon (also on the Swiss border).
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