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WAR DIARY
or
INTELLIGENCE SUMMARY
Army Form C.2118
Unit: 53rd Reconnaissance Regiment
Month and Year: October 1944 (Erase heading not required). Commanding Officer: Lt. Col. L. Williams
Place Date Hour Summary Reference
S of OSS 487522 21 1830 Conference for SLs at RHQ. CO emphasised that execution of plan for ‘mobile force’ i.e. Regt followed by E. Lancs in ‘Kangaroos” depended on (i) Infantry attack being successful (ii) Line Dish being reached by 1300 hrs. No alteration in plan except that C Sqn were not to go to S’HERTOGENBOSCH but would remain holding rd between 370482-385486. Regt was to relieve 11 Hussars on 23 Oct so that it might be necessary to leave A & B Sqns under command of 158 Inf Bde and take over with one Sqn.

Source: Jeroen Koppes, TracesOfWar.com, transcribing: Hans Houterman.

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