1 May 1944 Part 3

1 May 1944 Part 3 319th Infantry Division strength and island commanders in May

No expanded February-style weapons table is printed on this sheet. Individual tactical symbols are rendered as unit descriptions; tiny indistinct numerals are not reconstructed.

319th Infantry Division. Infantry: Grenadier Regiments 584, 583 and 582, each with Battalions I, II and III. Eastern Battalion 643 is incorporated in Regiment 582; Battalion 823 is associated with Regiment 583. The company diagrams distinguish rifle companies, machine-gun/heavy-weapons elements and regimental support weapons.

Artillery Regiment 319: Battalions I, II, III and IV. Mobile/anti-tank units 450 and 319. Divisional Signals Battalion 319 and Pioneer Battalion 319. Divisional services: field post, ordnance, veterinary, medical, administration and supply troops 319.

Static island troops: Guernsey, Tank Battalion 213 and the Guernsey element of Tank Company 17 (F); Jersey, island commander, Machine Gun Battalion 16 with Companies 1–5 and the Jersey element of Tank Company 17 (F). Alderney has a separate island commandant. A service-unit symbol numbered 605 is also shown; its precise unit type is not securely legible.

Total strength: 12,276.

Guernsey island commander: Lieutenant-General Count von Schmettow. Alderney island commandant: Major of the Reserve Schwalm. Jersey island commander: Colonel Hünten.

Eastern Battalion 643 is IV/582; Turkic Battalion 823 is IV/583. One pioneer company is annotated “with the 352nd Infantry Division”. A faint annotation against I Battalion, Artillery Regiment 319, refers to a cadre; the complete wording cannot be read securely.

German weapons: carbines 9,923; telescopic-sight rifles 47; rifle-grenade launchers 563; submachine guns 1,008; pistols 2,482.

Captured weapons: Czech carbines 1,010; Italian rifles 258; Polish rifles 230.

The area occupied by Artillery Regiment 1265 in earlier charts is blank in this copy.

German Seventh Army Headquarters (AOK 7), NARA T-312 Roll 1566. Roll 1566 Jersey and Channel Islands English translations.docx, reference 31. T312-1566.pdf, PDF page 224. PDF pages count from the first page of the supplied file.