Note from Air Officer Command 5 Group

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Title

Note from Air Officer Command 5 Group

Description

To officer commanding Conningsby Base RAF Woodhall Spa passing on congratulations on success of Saumur tunnel operation.

Date

1944-06-10

Temporal Coverage

Spatial Coverage

Language

Format

One typewritten document

Rights

This content is property of the Leonard Cheshire Archive which has kindly granted the International Bomber Command Centre Digital Archive a royalty-free permission to publish it. Please note that it was digitised by a third-party which used technical specifications that may differ from those used by International Bomber Command Centre Digital Archive. It has been published here ‘as is’ and may contain inaccuracies or culturally inappropriate references that do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the University of Lincoln or the International Bomber Command Centre.

Identifier

MCheshireGL72021-181210-010002

Transcription

From : A.O.C. HQ. No 5 Group.

To : Conningsby Base, R.A.F. Station, WOODHALL.

A.407. 10th. JUNE (Personal for Officer Commanding) The following message has been received from A.O.C.-in-C Bomber Command. Please give my congratulations to all concerned in the attack on Saumur Tunnel. The results speak for themselves of the astonishing skill and efficiency shown.

Collection

Citation

A.O.C. No 5 Group, “Note from Air Officer Command 5 Group,” IBCC Digital Archive, accessed April 24, 2024, https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/collections/document/16490.

Item Relations

This Item dcterms:relation Item: Royal Air Force file cover - Saumur 8/9 June