12 December 1942 Part 1

12 December 1942 Channel Islands Sea Defence diary

Weather: wind from 270°, 3 m/s.

Radar II, Le Marchant, unserviceable owing to motor damage.

Construction, M.A.A. 604: Battery Mirus — bunker interiors progress. Heating at gun 2 is complete; heating installation begins at gun 3; gun 4’s heating is expected to be complete by Christmas. The director’s periscope at the main control post can be installed once the specialist fitters, said to be on their way, arrive. Interior work has begun in the control-post accommodation bunker.

Battery Strassburg — the rangefinder can be raised to the upper platform of the temporary control post during the coming week. Shuttering and reinforcement for the main control post’s lower storey progress; pouring can begin in eight to ten days.

Battery Steinbruch — shuttering of the main control post’s upper storey progresses slowly. The accommodation bunker for gun 4 has begun. No visible progress at the other accommodation bunkers; excavation proceeds slowly.

M.A.A. 605, Battery West: Organisation Todt — preparations for pouring the control post; iron doors and hoists being installed in turrets 1–4; machinery-bunker work suspended. Ammunition replenishment bunker I: excavation; bunker II: stripping of shuttering begun. Accommodation bunker II: reinforcement continues; bunker IV: excavation continues under the new plan. Battery’s own work: common-room construction and all-round defence works continue.

Signed Steinbach.

T-1022 Roll 2422, scan 0569–0570.