1 November 1942 Part 11

1 November 1942 Channel Islands — construction status and progress, 1 November 1942

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

[Scan 2.jpg] Army High Command / General of Engineers and Fortifications, no. 1522/42, secret command matter. Enclosure 1 a. Status: 1 November 1942. Ten copies; copy 4. Overview of construction status of the Channel Islands.

[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 Read the numbers, brackets, dashes and corrections directly from the corresponding cells of the image; they have not been replaced by estimated or reassigned figures.]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.

Naval artillery: gun platforms; personnel positions or blocks; ammunition positions or blocks; machinery positions or blocks; ammunition replenishment rooms; anti-aircraft positions; fire-control posts; personnel accommodation for fire-control posts; range-finding posts; personnel accommodation for range-finding posts.

Coastal strongpoints and intermediate installations: squad shelters; emplacements with embrasured turrets; combat emplacements for Czech 4.7 cm anti-tank guns; anti-tank gun shelters; combat emplacements for M19 automatic mortars; gun casemates for 10.5 cm guns; artillery observation posts; searchlight shelters.

Command posts and reserves: headquarters command posts; medical shelters. Miscellaneous: air-raid shelters; anti-tank walls, linear metres; tunnel installations, square metres; signals structures.

Anti-aircraft batteries: gun emplacements for heavy anti-aircraft guns; gun emplacements for light anti-aircraft guns; command posts and anti-aircraft range-finding posts; positions for 150 cm and 60 cm searchlights; machinery bunkers; ammunition bunkers.

Remarks: Including Army coastal batteries employed in their place. Partly used temporarily as ammunition and personnel shelters. Including anti-aircraft artillery. For tunnel installations, the values in completed column (a) mean that excavation has been completed. Signals structures include Luftwaffe signals structures.

[Scan 0.jpg] Army High Command / General of Engineers and Fortifications, no. 1522/42, secret command matter. Enclosure 1 b. Status: 1 November 1942. Ten copies; copy 4. Overview of construction progress on the Channel Islands.

The entries show construction progress relative to the position on 1 October 1942. The row labels are the same as in the accompanying status chart. Each island has three columns: newly begun during the reporting month; completed (a) structural shell; completed (b) operational. Remark: including Army coastal batteries employed in their place.

Original source image 0.jpg — T-78 Roll 317. Channel Islands — construction status and progress, 1 November 1942.

Original source image 2.jpg — T-78 Roll 317. Channel Islands — construction status and progress, 1 November 1942.

German Army High Command records, T-78 Roll 317. Supplied English translation T78_Roll_317_English_Translation.docx. Source images: 0.jpg, 2.jpg.