14 October 1942 Part 1

14 October 1942 Channel Islands Sea Defence diary

Weather: wind from 225°, 3 metres per second.

02:20–02:30: Naval Signal Station Doyle continuously observed white flares, muzzle flashes and 2-cm firing towards Cap de la Hague, followed by a detonation and a glow. Measuring posts A and F of Army Coastal Artillery Battalion 452 reported the same.

02:40: Strassburg fire-control post observed muzzle flashes at very long range on bearing 70°; Steinbruch observed illumination shells. Batterie Elsass on Alderney reported a burning ship in naval grid 3541 at 02:35. At 03:00 measuring posts A and F, Artillery Regiment 720, sighted a fire drifting westwards.

03:35: Sark forward observer reported naval combat five kilometres east of Sark. 03:55: nothing further visible. The incident was an attack on a German convoy.

08:00: combat readiness, Alert Level I, cancelled. From 22:00, 319th Infantry Division ordered “Threatened danger”. Otherwise no special occurrences.

T-1022 Roll 2422, PG 37996, scans 0527.