1 May 1942 Part 9

1 May 1942 Channel Islands monthly construction progress table

Date note: Placed at the table’s stated effective date of 1 May 1942. Translated row and column keys accompany the original numerical table.

Overview of construction progress on the Channel Islands

Fortress Engineer Commander XIV. Enclosure 5b. As at 1 May 1942. Secret command matter.

Columns for Guernsey, Jersey and Alderney each show work during the reporting month: newly started; shell completed; operationally ready. The final column contains remarks. The original numerical table is reproduced with this translation.

Type of installation — translated row labels in source order:

Naval artillery: gun platforms; personnel shelters or blocks; ammunition shelters or blocks; machinery shelters or blocks; ammunition replenishment rooms; anti-aircraft emplacements; fire-control posts; personnel shelters for fire-control posts; direction-finding posts; personnel shelters for direction-finding posts.

Coastal strongpoints and intermediate installations: squad shelters; emplacements with embrasure turrets; combat emplacements for 4.7 cm anti-tank gun (t); anti-tank gun shelters; combat emplacements for M19; gun casemate for 10.5 cm gun; artillery observation posts; searchlight shelter.

Command posts and reserves: staff command posts; medical shelters.

Miscellaneous: air raid protection structures; anti-tank walls, in linear metres; tunnel installations, in square metres; signals structures.

Anti-aircraft batteries: heavy anti-aircraft gun emplacements; light anti-aircraft gun emplacements; command and anti-aircraft measuring posts; 150 cm and 60 cm searchlight emplacements; machinery shelters; ammunition shelters.

Remarks: Includes Army coastal batteries occupying their positions. Some are temporarily used as ammunition and personnel shelters. Includes anti-aircraft artillery. Figures in the “completed, a” column mean excavation completed. Signals structures include Luftwaffe signals structures.

Original source image 0025.jpg — T-312 Roll 1547. Channel Islands monthly construction progress table.

German Seventh Army records, T-312 Roll 1547, 28680/21, Army Engineer Commander. Supplied translation T312 Roll 1547 English translation DRAFT.docx. Local source scans: 0025.jpg.