17 August 1943 Part 1

17–21 August 1943 Channel Islands battery construction

No special occurrences for 17–21 August. Construction report, Naval Artillery Battalion 604.

Batterie Mirus: infantry positions around the guns and fire-control post were improved. Levelling for the perimeter wire at No. 4 gun was carried out and passages were made through the gun wiring. Widening of the battery's central road and construction of the sports ground continued. Organisation Todt completed excavation at anti-aircraft position No. 5 and poured No. 9; excavation began for the drainage pipe of position No. 4. Windheim completed camouflage at the fire-control post and No. 1 gun and began work at No. 3 gun and anti-aircraft position No. 2.

Batterie Steinbruch, battery work: interior work continued in the communal barrack, canteen, cellar, craftsmen’s accommodation and workshop, and the living bunkers for the fire-control-post staff and No. 4 gun. A communication trench was made to the second anti-tank gun, and rifle positions were built at anti-aircraft guns 5 and 6.

Steinbruch, Organisation Todt: the floor at the fire-control-post entrance and the third landing of the post were poured. Anti-aircraft position 2 was poured without its parapet. Banking continued at water tank 3 and the fire-control post, together with drainage at the ammunition replenishment bunker and anti-aircraft position 6. Siemens continued the Epa and Seipa connections at the guns, lighting in the ammunition bunker and heating in living bunker 1. The supporting base for the petrol tank was poured.

Batterie Strassburg, battery work: the ammunition bunker for the second Oerlikon was completed. Ammunition was stacked in the bunkers and work continued on the new day rooms at the guns. Organisation Todt began levelling and camouflage in front of the new fire-control post.

Batterie Lothringen, battery work: work continued on the office barrack and camouflage at gun positions 3 and 4 and searchlight B. Organisation Todt shuttered the fire-control post and placed the armour components. Shuttering began for the fourth embrasure of the bearing post and its entrance. Horticultural camouflage continued.

Naval Artillery Battalion 605, Batterie Annes: no Organisation Todt work was reported. Previously begun battery work continued without change.

T-1022 Roll 2422, scans 0688–0689.