12 April 1943 Part 1

12 April 1943 Channel Islands Sea Defence diary

Weather: wind 315°, 4 m/sec. From 10:30 to 17:00, Army Coast Battery 462 and Batteries Mirus and Steinbruch conducted practice firing. Ammunition expenditure: Army Coast Battery 462, 32 rounds 15-cm; Batterie Mirus, 35 rounds 30.5-cm; Batterie Steinbruch, 39 rounds 15-cm.

During Batterie Mirus's practice firing, the firing cable broke during the third salvo and the runner on the elevation arc was destroyed. No. 4 gun of Batterie Mirus was no longer fit for war service. Two men were slightly wounded by a battle stoppage deliberately introduced during the firing. From 15:00 to 16:15, Batterie Elsaß conducted functional firing; 9 rounds 17-cm were fired.

T-1022 Roll 2422, PG 37997, scans 0620.