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17 April 1944 Part 1
Summary
Coastal battery firing or engagement. Readiness or defensive orders. Training or inspection
Location Details
Guernsey; Battery Steinbruch
Diary Entry
17 April 1944 Channel Islands Sea Defence diary
Weather: wind from 270°, 1 metre per second. 10:50–12:00: Guernsey Artillery Group conducted an alert exercise firing at targets laid out at sea. All subordinate army coastal batteries and naval Batterie Steinbruch participated. No malfunctions. Steinbruch expended twenty-four 15-cm high-explosive practice shells and twenty-four practice cartridges.
From 23:35 sea-target alert for Guernsey Artillery Group following detection of unidentified surface targets in BF 3547, centre.
Source of Information
Roll 2422, scan 0822, original page 36.
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