1 July 1943 Part 18

1 July 1943 Channel Islands permanent construction returns

These four returns show permanent construction for the whole 319th Infantry Division sector, Alderney, Guernsey with Sark, and Jersey. Overall percentages as printed, in the order completed / under construction / not begun:

319th Infantry Division: 22% / 23% / 55%.

Alderney: 10% / 9% / 81%.

Guernsey and Sark: 31% / 36% / 33%.

Jersey: 23% / 21% / 56%.

The columns give planned totals, completed works, works under construction and works not yet begun, first as counts and then as percentages. The overall percentages are those printed by the German compilers; they have not been recalculated by adding unlike structures and kilometres of obstacles. Dashes should not automatically be treated as independently verified zeroes.

Row | English rendering of the German row heading

1 | Tobruk positions

2 | Open machine-gun positions

3 | Machine-gun embrasure positions

4 | Machine-gun embrasure turrets

5 | M19 combat position

6 | Armoured rotating turret for machine gun

7 | Armoured rotating turret for machine gun and 4.7 cm gun

8 | Armoured rotating turret for machine gun and 3.7 cm gun

9 | Armoured rotating turret for 3.7 cm gun

10 | Open anti-tank gun positions

11 | Anti-tank gun embrasure position

12 | Anti-tank gun shelter

13 | Infantry gun position

14 | 5 cm tank-gun position

15 | Mortar positions

16 | Open gun positions

17 | Gun shelter

18 | Gun casemate

19 | Anti-aircraft gun positions

20 | Searchlight positions

21 | Flamethrower positions

22 | Ammunition bunkers

23 | Personnel bunkers

24 | Provisions bunkers

25 | Water installations

26 | Medical bunkers

27 | Decontamination stations

28 | Signals bunkers

29 | Machinery bunkers

30 | Command bunkers

31 | Observation posts

32 | Wire obstacles in kilometres

33 | Anti-tank obstacles

Ständig = permanent; feldmäßig = field construction; fertig = completed; im Bau = under construction; noch nicht begonnen = not yet begun; Gesamtplanung = total planned. The original columns and numbers remain in the following facsimiles.

Editorial note: these are separate Seventh Army returns, with different categories from the Fortress Engineer Staff 19 construction-progress chart already included from T-78 Roll 317 for 1 July 1943. They are complementary evidence, not another copy of that chart.

Original source image 00269.jpg — T-312 Roll 1563. Channel Islands permanent construction returns.

Original source image 00270.jpg — T-312 Roll 1563. Channel Islands permanent construction returns.

Original source image 00271.jpg — T-312 Roll 1563. Channel Islands permanent construction returns.

Original source image 00272.jpg — T-312 Roll 1563. Channel Islands permanent construction returns.

German Seventh Army records, NARA T-312 Roll 1563. T312_R1563_Jersey_and_Channel_Islands_English_Translation.docx. File 41703/37 • Scans 00269, 00270, 00271, 00272 • 1 July 1943. Local scan references identify the supplied image filenames, not substituted microfilm frame numbers.