14 May 1944 Part 1

Summary

Aircraft movements and observations. Battery construction or maintenance. Weather report

Location Details

Guernsey; Casquets

Diary Entry

14 May 1944 Channel Islands Sea Defence diary

Weather: wind from 315°, 10 metres per second. 13:05: Casquets shot a drifting mine to the north-east. Ammunition expenditure: eight anti-tank-gun rounds.

Land mountings for 2-cm anti-aircraft weapons completed or begun during the preceding week: artillery arsenal command, one Oerlikon pedestal mounting complete, seven under construction, plus one mobile Oerlikon mounting under construction. Island arsenal workshop: ten mobile mountings for 2-cm C 30 and C 38 under construction. The nine 2-cm plinths planned for Guernsey harbour area are complete.

Source of Information

Roll 2422, scans 0836–0837, original pages 49–50.