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If you want just a little bit more, check out our new Storify piece remixing some key events of May 1940 http://ow.ly/e3Sx4
I'm confident @ukwarcabinet will return. This after all is not even (quite) the end of the beginning. Thanks for reading.
I've certainly developed a new appreciation for their work during the war and hopefully you have too.
Before I go I'd like to take a second to pay tribute to all the ordinary people doing extraordinary things captured in these records.
...and that's it from me. I'm starting a new research role here at the Archives. Wish me luck. It's been a fascinating few years.
Chiefs of Staff: Considerable reinforcements have reached Australian forces in New Guinea. Japanese withdrawn 10 miles http://ow.ly/e3L9z
Chiefs of Staff: Road blocks "and now rain" holding up UK advance in Madagascar but civilians friendly and co-operating http://ow.ly/e3L1i
Chiefs of Staff: Germans well established in Stalingrad city centre and may hold substantial part of southern suburbs http://ow.ly/e3KSk
Bomber Command: Karlsruhe and Bremen attacked with good results. More than half of Dusseldorf "effectively devastated" http://ow.ly/e3KBh
India Secretary supports dismissal of the Prime Minister of Sind after he publicly criticised "British Imperialism" http://ow.ly/e3KmY
UK to admit only Jewish refugee children with parent "already in this country" from Unoccupied France. Over 60s refused http://ow.ly/e0JBB
Cabinet approves celebration on 15th November of 2nd anniversary of Defence of Great Britain from "blitz" of 1940-41 http://ow.ly/e0IrY
PM: Situation in a fortnight's time will "make it very much easier to reach a decision as to the proper line of action" http://ow.ly/e0H2p
General Wilson asks permission to establish advanced bases in North Persia to meet a possible German advance http://ow.ly/e0Gkb
Cabinet rejects offer from General Chiang Kai-shek that 8,000 Chinese troops could be flown into India http://ow.ly/e0FyO
General Brooke: We have made successful attacks on Benghazi and Tobruk. UK forces have entered Tananarive in Madagascar http://ow.ly/e0FfJ
Air Chief: Bad weather has restricted bomber operations but Gestapo HQ at Oslo has been bombed by 4 Mosquitoes http://ow.ly/e0EoN
UK continues to plan for evacuation of Soviet fleet from Black Sea. "Not an appropriate moment" to raise this with USSR http://ow.ly/e0CHp
Lord Cherwell: Agent has obtained German army casualty figures: 1m in first 6 months of 1942, 3.5m since start of war http://ow.ly/e06FN
Eden: German morale "has risen only slightly this summer and remains spiritless" but morale of armed forces "high" http://ow.ly/e067F
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