1 February 1944 Part 1

1–5 February 1944 Channel Islands Sea Defence diary

No special occurrences.

Construction, Naval Artillery Battalion 604. Batterie Mirus: emplacement work for the naval radar; further work on the shelter for the second 7.5-cm gun; mounting the fourth 7.5-cm gun on a turntable; excavation of cover pits for protection against tanks at the guns; re-emplacement of the 2-cm guns Bremen and Düsseldorf; building a garage for searchlight A at Langenberg; surrounding the craftsmen's room at No. 1 gun with wire obstacles; bringing up armour plates for No. 3 gun.

Batterie Steinbruch: further development of searchlight position A, levelling for searchlight B, continued cable laying, wire obstacles and camouflage. The gardening firm carried out levelling and planting.

Batterie Strassburg: shuttering and reinforcement work for the shelters for the 7.5-cm gun and searchlight generating sets was completed. The base slab for searchlight position B was poured. Wire obstacles at the fire-control post continued, and close-defence installations in sector 2 were improved. Camouflage by the camouflage firm.

Batterie Lothringen: work continued on the shelter for generating set A, the new fire-control post and camouflage of combat installations. Installations in the personnel rooms were completed.

T-1022 Roll 2422, PG 37998. Scan 0785 is the SECRET cover for 1–15 February 1944, attachment to Sea Commandant Channel Islands B.Nr. G 876 H. Scan references below use actual local JPG filenames.
Roll 2422, scan 0786, original page 9. [The opening day numeral is damaged at the edge; the period begins with this half-month volume.]