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17 June 1944 Part 3

Summary

Map or chart: Field-post map showing Jersey and Guernsey.

Location Details

Jersey; Guernsey; St Helier; Paris

Diary Entry

17 June 1944 Part 3 Field-post map showing Jersey and Guernsey

Date note: Map status 17 June; report 18 June 1944.

Secret Command Matter

Annex 1 to the weekly report of Army Postmaster 7 dated 18 June 1944

III 2975 0 Brb 1185/44

Field postal services in the area of Seventh Army headquarters

Position on 17 June 1944

Map key

Field post offices of the Army.

Locally assigned field post offices.

Army connecting journeys.

Connecting journeys of Army Postmaster West within the emergency field-post service.

Other labels: “from Paris”; “on the way” or “approaching” for the listed offices 44 12, 44 2, 44 101, 447 and 822. “Zw” means branch office. Place names and numerical office identifiers remain as printed on the map.

The island labels are Guernsey and Jersey. Guernsey is marked “Zw 319”, branch 319; Jersey is marked St Helier with a branch-office designation. The faint Jersey number is preserved in the image. Page marking 248/13.

Original field-post map — T-312 Roll 1571, reference 30. English title and key above.

Source of Information 

German Seventh Army Headquarters (AOK 7), NARA T-312 Roll 1571. Roll 1571 Jersey and Channel Islands English translations.docx, reference 30. Scan extracts: img065_11_19440_21323.jpg. Extract filenames identify the original image strip, section number and horizontal pixel boundaries; these are not archival frame numbers.

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