15 October 1941 Part 2

15 October 1941 Führer directive on Channel Islands defences

Secret command matter. Naval Signals Service 04199. Received 15 October at 1400 [time slightly indistinct]; receipt stamp 15 October 1941, reference 3528. Operational priority MFPA 012891, 15 October, 1350. To Naval Commander Channel Coast and Naval Commander Western France.

Naval High Command, Naval War Staff Operations Division, telegraphs, reference 23382/41, secret command matter, of 15 October:

Commander-in-Chief Luftwaffe, Operations Staff, issued the following directive on 11 October:

The Führer has ordered:

1. One anti-aircraft regiment of two anti-aircraft battalions each on Guernsey and Jersey; one anti-aircraft battalion on Alderney.

2. The Army has been ordered immediately to begin [continued].

Channel Islands defence directive — continuation

[Continued:] construction on the lines of the Westwall. Air Fleet 3 is to ensure corresponding accommodation and protection for the gun crews and corresponding development of the gun positions and ammunition shelters.

3. Stocks of spare barrels, armour-piercing shells and food are to be based on at least the requirements of fourteen days of major combat.

4. In the near future Air Fleet 3 is to keep the British south coast under reconnaissance to determine whether signs of troop concentrations and embarkations are discernible.

Admiral France, 8617, secret command matter.

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