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740.0011 (E.W.)/11–742: Telegram

The Consul General at Algiers (Cole) to the War Department 41

[Algiers, November 4, 1942.]
[Received November 5—4 p.m.]

No. 757. [From Murphy.] Your M–20, 27th, paragraph 3. In view of message received this morning from Kingpin regarding his decision to proceed North Africa I am informing Flagpole this afternoon on assault date and name of commander-in-chief. To avoid error please confirm assault date. [Murphy.]

Cole
  1. Copy supplied by the Office of the Secretary of Defense under cover of letter of September 7, 1960.↩