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15 May 1943 Part 3

Summary

Harbour protection boats attacked off Guernsey.

Location Details

Guernsey

Diary Entry

15 May 1943 Part 3 Harbour protection boats attacked off Guernsey

About twenty aircraft attacked four harbour-protection boats off Guernsey harbour with aircraft guns. On the boats: four dead and fifteen wounded. At an antiaircraft battery: one dead and one wounded. Another soldier was wounded by antiaircraft shell fragments. Two boats’ engines were out of action; on one boat all machine guns, and on another one 2 cm gun, were put out of action. One aircraft was shot down.

Source of Information 

German Army, Seventh Army Headquarters (AOK 7), NARA T-312 Roll 1553. T312_R1553_Channel_Islands_English_Translation.docx, translated entry 105. Original source T312-1553.pdf, PDF pages 399, 400. PDF pages count from the first page and are not original folio or microfilm frame numbers.

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