1 October 1943 Part 1

1–2 October 1943 Channel Islands battery construction

War Diary of the Commander of Sea Defence, Channel Islands, 1–15 October 1943. Secret. Enclosure to G 5746; archival marking Ch 36857 d; Naval Staff registry 2310/43. No special occurrences for 1–2 October. Construction report, Naval Artillery Battalion 604.

Batterie Mirus: repairs were carried out on the fire-control-post barrack and cable trenches dug in its area. The day room in anti-aircraft position No. 3 was fitted out. Construction of the road from No. 1 gun to the service barrack continued. An earth bank was built from No. 3 gun to the service barrack. The infantry position at No. 3 gun was completed. Work continued on a washing barrack and the rifle positions at No. 4 gun. Organisation Todt poured anti-aircraft bunker No. 4 and continued interior work in bunker No. 8. Krupp was fitting a cartridge hoist at No. 1 gun.

Batterie Steinbruch: work continued on the communication trenches of the Tobruk positions, the communal barrack, the galley building and crew bunker No. 3. Organisation Todt poured anti-aircraft position No. 6, banked positions Nos. 1, 2 and 3 and water tanks Nos. 1 and 2, prepared Tobruk position No. 4 for pouring and carried out levelling at the fire-control post. Siemens continued erecting and assembling machinery in the machine house. The concrete covering and shell-breaking protective layer over the petrol tank were completed, after which banking and levelling began.

Batterie Strassburg: roofing over the entrance passage to the fire-control post was completed. Trolley tracks at Nos. 2, 3 and 4 guns were nearly complete. Work continued on the 7.5-cm infantry positions, and shells and cartridges at all guns were restacked.

Batterie Lothringen: the originally planned minefield was completed and work began on a second. Camouflage and infantry positions continued, together with extension of searchlight position A.

Batterie Lothringen: Organisation Todt continued installations in the new fire-control post and excavated trenches for its wiring.

Naval Artillery Battalion 605, Batterie Annes: Organisation Todt completed reinforcement of the base of living bunker I and prepared it for pouring. Excavation began for a drainage ditch; previously begun levelling and banking continued. Battery personnel rewired the strongpoint around searchlight Anton. Excavation began for a fuel shed and for a drainage ditch running westwards from the settling pit to the sea; other previously begun work continued.

T-1022 Roll 2422, scans 0704–0706.