15 June 1943 Part 1

15 June 1943 Channel Islands Sea Defence diary

Weather: wind 270°, 5 m/sec. At 06:14, five boats of the 24th Minesweeping Flotilla, returning from minesweeping to St Peter Port, were attacked east of Sark in BF 3572 centre by 20 bombers and fighters approaching at low level from the north-west, using bombs and aircraft guns. The diary claims five enemy aircraft shot down.

M 483 received a bomb hit through the port-side outer plating into the engine room and sank quickly. German losses were two dead, two missing and 24 injured.

The Ida-Emil measure, Channel Islands special-lighting plan serial No. 10, Platte Fougère, was unavailable.

At 22:50, FK 25 and FK 28 fired upon a floating mine in grid square B.F. 3813 upper left. Ammunition expenditure: FK 25, 420 light-machine-gun rounds; FK 28, 550 light-machine-gun rounds.

T-1022 Roll 2422, scans 0655.