1 March 1944 Part 5

1 March 1944 Guernsey fortifications and tunnel-use map — 1944-03-01

[Source: gsy 44.jpg] Guernsey fortifications map. Top secret command matter. Fortress Engineer Sector Group II/19, reference 34/44, top secret command matter. State on 1 March 1944. Checked on 26 February 1944 by the major commanding the sector group; signature unclear. Fifth of eight copies. Base cartography dated 31 March 1943.

English map key: Stp. — strongpoint; Zw. Anl. — intermediate work; Rückw. Anl. — rear work; H. K. B. — Army coastal battery; M. B. — naval battery; M. P. — naval bearing or direction-finding position; Ho. — tunnel complex; Flak — antiaircraft artillery; Flugplatz — airfield; Erweiterung — extension; Höhe — elevation; Hafen — harbour; E-Werk — power station; Geschützstand — gun emplacement; F. M. G. — radar equipment; Mun. / Muni. — ammunition. Place names, battery names and identifying numbers are retained on the map. Small or indistinct annotations that cannot be read securely have not been expanded.

Tunnel legend: “Tunnel complexes / installation number / future purpose.” These descriptions state the intended use; they do not by themselves establish completion or occupation.

Ho. 1 — island power station (A), diesel-oil depot.

Ho. 2 — ration store, area A.

Ho. 3 — naval stores depot.

Ho. 4 — Luftwaffe fuel dump.

Ho. 5 — accommodation for two-thirds of an antitank company, without vehicles.

Ho. 6 — fuel dump, area B.

Ho. 7 — one partly motorized infantry battalion headquarters and one motorized machine-gun company, without vehicles.

Ho. 8 — currently a temporary ammunition store.

Ho. 10 — Luftwaffe ammunition store.

Ho. 11 — one artillery battalion headquarters with signals platoon, and one light field-howitzer battery with vehicles.

Ho. 12 — ration store, area C.

Ho. 14 — ammunition depot, area B.

Ho. 15 — island military hospital.

Ho. 18 — proposed ammunition depot, area A.

Ho. 19 — fuel store, area C.

Ho. 20 — proposed tank and motor-vehicle workshop.

Ho. 21 — ration store with bakery, area B.

Ho. 22 — one assault-gun battery with vehicles.

Ho. 23 — proposed accommodation for one tank battalion headquarters and one company with vehicles.

Ho. 29 — reserved for the Luftwaffe.

Ho. 31 — miniature power station.

Ho. 32 — miniature power station.

Ho. 33 — one regimental headquarters with signals platoon; infantry-gun company without vehicles.

Ho. 34 — one antitank company without vehicles.

Ho. 35 — one cyclist company with motorcycles, without lorries.

Ho. 36 — one cyclist company with motorcycles, without lorries.

Ho. 37 — vehicles from Ho. 5, 35 and 36.

Ho. 40 — one partly motorized machine-gun company without vehicles.

Ho. 41 — Luftwaffe aircraft and equipment.

Position names and other translated labels: Krähennest — Crow’s Nest; Gemäuer — masonry or ruins; Grüne Düne — Green Dune; Dachsbau — Badger’s Den; Pleinmont-Riegel — Pleinmont blocking position; Steinbruch — quarry; Felsenspitze — Rocky Point; Sportplatz — sports ground. The map retains the local names Fort Hommet, Richmond, Saumarez, Grande Rocque, Vale Castle, Fort Doyle, Mont Chouet, Fort Le Marchant, Doyle Rock, Castle Cornet, Fort Grey, Pleinmont, La Corbière and Icart Point.

Army coastal batteries marked include Cobo, Beaucamps, Les Effards, Chaumière, Arsenal and Pleinmont. Naval battery names include Mirus, Strassburg, Fort George and Cambridge Park; the original gun-type abbreviations are retained. Mörser 18 means Mortar 18; mittlere Batterie means medium battery; schwere Batterie means heavy battery. Ho. 31 is within the Crow’s Nest strongpoint; Ho. 32 is within W. 27. Other coastal and inland symbols and installation numbers remain available in the embedded original.

“Kein Geschütz eingesetzt” means no gun installed, as annotated at emplacement sites. Marine-Beobachtungsstelle means naval observation post; Dezimetergerät means decimetric radar equipment. The map also identifies Luftwaffe radar and naval observation positions.

Original source image gsy 44.jpg — T-78 Roll 317. Guernsey fortifications and tunnel-use map — 1944-03-01.

German Army High Command records, T-78 Roll 317. Supplied English translation T78_Roll_317_English_Translation.docx. Source images: gsy 44.jpg.