(Untitled), 07 Oct 1942

Item

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/81/8-9

Scope and Contents

Telegram from Field Marshal Sir John Dill [Head of British Joint Staff Mission in Washington] to WSC marked "personal" reporting his conversation with Harry Hopkins [Special Adviser and Assistant to the President of the United States]: comments on President Roosevelt's views on the reply to Stalin; the possibility of implementing "Velvet" [codename for proposal for Anglo-American air force on the Soviet southern flank] in the spring; the transfer of United States Air forces from other theatres to the Caucasus [Soviet Union]; the role of United States fighters in the United Kingdom; the instruction issued by Roosevelt for the production of 100,000 combat aircraft in 1943.

Dates

Creation: 07 Oct 1942

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