15 April 1944 Part 2

15 April 1944 Channel Islands Sea Defence diary

Weather: wind from 90°, 4 metres per second. Batterie Mirus has reworked propellant cartridges for a total of 718 ballistic-cap shells.

Construction, Naval Artillery Battalion 604, Batterie Mirus: Würzburg set, infantry command post at the battery commander's house and Epa–Seipa continued. Machine-gun positions at No. 2 gun developed; No. 3 gun camouflaged; 30.5-cm propellant cartridges reworked at all guns. Düsseldorf anti-aircraft position and road at No. 2 gun continued. Firefighting pond at the service barrack complete. New wire obstacles at the farmhouse and Essen anti-aircraft position; camouflage of No. 1 gun and its 7.62-cm gun. Anti-aircraft-landing stakes driven in at Rundbucht [source place-name retained]. Work on two 7.5-cm positions suspended owing to lack of cement.

Batterie Steinbruch: shuttering removed from searchlight and generating-set bunker B; generating set installed. Development and camouflage of infantry and anti-aircraft positions, battery grounds and searchlight position A continued. Work on 7.62-cm gun positions suspended owing to lack of cement.

Batterie Strassburg: second splinter-proof 7.5-cm position begun in masonry owing to lack of cement. Brown House demolition and camouflage of infantry positions continued.

Batterie Lothringen: earth excavated in front of the old fire-control post; general camouflage continued; second dummy position and machine-gun position complete. Work on one 7.5-cm position suspended owing to lack of cement.

Roll 2422, scans 0818–0819, original pages 34–35.