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17 February 1944 Part 1
Summary
Air attack or aircraft engagement. Coastal battery firing or engagement. Air or sea observations
Location Details
Battery Mirus; Battery Strassburg
Diary Entry
17 February 1944 Channel Islands Sea Defence diary
Weather: wind from 315°, 11 metres per second. At 10:18 Batterie Strassburg fired with light anti-aircraft weapons at an enemy Marauder, range approximately 1,800 metres, firing bearings 210°–150°, altitude 1,500 metres. No hits observed; no enemy counter-action. Ammunition expenditure: sixty-nine 2-cm rounds. Batterie Mirus observed the aircraft fire two red flares and then one more.
Source of Information
Roll 2422, scan 0791, original page 13.
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