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(Untitled), 16 Feb 1942

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/70/52-54

Scope and Contents

Telegram from WSC to the President of the United States [Franklin Roosevelt]: comments on personnel changes at ABDA [Australian, British, Dutch and Australasian] Command; comments on implications of the new situation created by the fall of Singapore and Japanese landings in Sumatra [Dutch East Indies, later Indonesia]; states that a battle is impending in Libya; comments on the retreat of the German naval forces from Brest [France], and the damage inflicted on the [German battleships], the Prinz Eugen, the Scharnhorst and the Gneisenau.

Dates

  • Creation: 16 Feb 1942

Conditions Governing Access

From the File:

Open

Language of Materials

English

Former / Other Reference

T 241/2

Subject

Repository Details

Part of the Churchill Archives Centre Repository

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