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(Untitled), 31 Oct 1942

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/82/4

Scope and Contents

Telegram from "Former Naval Person" [WSC] to President Roosevelt marked "personal and secret" in which he relays a message from [General Harold Alexander, later Lord Alexander of Tunis, Commander in Chief Middle East] with reports from the Western Desert that there is great satisfaction with Sherman [tanks] as the position of their guns permits them to be concealed and that they are successfully destroying enemy tanks at a range of 2,000 yards and that 105mm "S P" guns have also "done well". Typescript.

Dates

  • Creation: 31 Oct 1942

Conditions Governing Access

Open

Conditions Governing Use

Copyright: Crown

Extent

1 folio(s)

Language of Materials

English

External Documents

Former / Other Reference

T 1403/2

Repository Details

Part of the Churchill Archives Centre Repository

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