17 October 1942 Part 1

17 October 1942 Channel Islands Sea Defence diary

Weather: wind from 315°, 2 metres per second.

08:28: 319th Infantry Division cancelled “Threatened danger” immediately. Otherwise no special occurrences.

Construction, Naval Artillery Battalion 604 — Batterie Mirus. Work mainly continued on backfilling at the guns, and on toilets and washrooms in the accommodation bunkers. Installation of ventilation and heating at Nos. 3 and 4 begun. Only a small battery working party continued the wire obstacles because Engineer Staff 19’s new plan had not yet arrived. From the following week, an engineer detachment was to assist with increased work on the wire.

Batterie Strassburg: no changes. Batterie Steinbruch: work at the four guns and their surrounding structures nearing completion. Earthworks for accommodation and ammunition-replenishment bunkers progressing. Base of the main fire-control post poured.

Naval Artillery Battalion 605 — Organisation Todt work. Fire-control post: drainage pipes laid. Turret 1: hoist installation begun. Turret 2: formwork removed. Turret 3: preparations for pouring. Turret 4: hoist installation begun. Machinery bunker: no progress from previous week. Splinter protection for a radar set poured. Working base of fourth accommodation bunker laid.

Battery’s own work: galley-cellar floors laid and house beams placed. Perimeter wire continued. Motor-garage construction continued.

T-1022 Roll 2422, PG 37996, scans 0533–0534.