12 November 1942 Part 1

12 November 1942 Channel Islands Sea Defence diary

Weather: wind from 250°, 2 metres per second.

08:40: 319th Infantry Division retained Alert Level I. 10:32: cancelled. 13:12: ordered again.

Batterie Lothringen carried out ranging trials from 10:00–11:00 and 13:30–14:30 with its infantry guns: one 8.76-cm, two 7.5-cm and one 2.5-cm anti-tank gun. Bearings 180°–270°, range 30 hm (3 km). Expenditure: twenty-five 8.76-cm rounds; forty 7.5-cm rounds; ten 2.5-cm anti-tank practice shells and ten 2.5-cm anti-tank high-explosive shells. No defects during firing. Otherwise no special occurrences.

Signed Steinbach.

T-1022 Roll 2422, PG 37996, scans 0544.