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10 December 1942 Part 1

Summary

Battery construction or maintenance. Weather report

Location Details

Hanois; Cherbourg; Battery Mirus

Diary Entry

10 December 1942 Channel Islands Sea Defence diary

Weather: wind from 90°, 5 m/s.

1630–1645: A mine is destroyed by firing from Les Hanois lighthouse. Ammunition: 200 MG 34 rounds. A further mine on the green platform near St Peter-in-the-Wood [source: “St. Peter a-d-wood”] is blown up by Flak Brigade 39. One 2-cm Oerlikon gun from Battery Mirus is sent to Maza Cherbourg for repair.

Signed Steinbach.

Source of Information 

T-1022 Roll 2422, scan 0568.

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