(Untitled), 16 Feb 1942
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
Open
Language of Materials
English
External Documents
Former / Other Reference
T 241/2
Subject
- Royal Navy (Organization)
Repository Details
Part of the Churchill Archives Centre Repository
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