1 February 1944 Part 5

1 February 1944 Channel Islands — construction status and progress, 1944-02-01

Date note: Date is the construction-status date printed on the chart.

[Scan 6.jpg] Fortress Engineer Sector Group II/19. Secret command matter. Eight copies; copy 5. Status: 1 February 1944. References: 1598/44; 342/44.

Overview of construction status and construction progress on the Channel Islands. Figures in brackets indicate output during the reporting month.

[Editorial reading key: the complete numerical grid is retained in the embedded original chart. The English text below translates its headings, row labels and remarks. Read the numbers, brackets, dashes and corrections directly from the corresponding cells of the image; they have not been replaced by estimated or reassigned figures.]

Column headings: Type of installation; Guernsey; Jersey; Alderney; Remarks. For each island: total planned in the first construction programme; of these, under construction; completed (a) structural shell; completed (b) operational.

1. Infantry construction: headquarters command posts; double-squad shelters; squad shelters; shelters for six men; personnel shelters of special design (SK); embrasured turrets; combat emplacements for Czech 4.7 cm anti-tank guns; combat emplacements for 5 cm anti-tank guns; anti-tank gun garages; combat emplacements for M19 automatic mortars; gun casemates for 10.5 cm guns; searchlight shelters; water tanks; well bunkers.

2. Naval artillery: headquarters command posts; gun platforms; personnel shelters; ammunition bunkers; machinery bunkers; ammunition replenishment rooms; anti-aircraft positions; fire-control posts; personnel accommodation for fire-control posts; range-finding posts; personnel accommodation for range-finding posts; naval observation posts; water tanks; artillery observation posts; well bunkers.

3. Army coastal artillery: headquarters command posts; gun platforms; personnel shelters; ammunition bunkers; machinery bunkers; ammunition replenishment rooms; fire-control posts; personnel accommodation for fire-control posts; water tanks; range-finding posts / artillery observation posts, as entered on the individual chart; well bunkers.

4. Luftwaffe construction: headquarters command posts; heavy anti-aircraft gun emplacements; light anti-aircraft gun emplacements; command posts and anti-aircraft range-finding posts; searchlight emplacements; machinery bunkers; ammunition bunkers; water tanks; small personnel bunkers; squad shelters; well bunkers.

5. Signals construction: divisional signals bunker or exchange; network junctions; cable switching stations; repeater station; bunkers for decimetric radio equipment; radar bunkers; radio direction-finding posts; naval signals bunkers.

6. Other construction: air-raid shelters; Army medical shelters; Navy medical shelters; Luftwaffe medical shelters; naval observation posts; water tanks; fuel store; power station; tunnel installations (square metres); anti-tank walls (linear metres).

Totals: subtotal; grand total — construction output; construction status.

Remarks: Permanent construction of three emplacements stopped; these are being developed to field-fortification standard [wording partly indistinct]. New naval signals station at the harbour.

Original source image 6.jpg — T-78 Roll 317. Channel Islands — construction status and progress, 1944-02-01.

German Army High Command records, T-78 Roll 317. Supplied English translation T78_Roll_317_English_Translation.docx. Source images: 6.jpg.