18 April 1944 Part 2

18 April 1944 Channel Islands Sea Defence diary

Weather: wind from 150°, 2 metres per second. 00:11: Guernsey Artillery Group's sea-target alert ended. Targets had no longer been detected since 23:58 on 17 April. The ships could not be engaged because they were close to the German shipping route, on which German vessels were then present.

07:40–08:25 and 18:09–18:15: Alderney Artillery Group conducted alert firing exercises at targets laid out north-west of the island. No malfunctions. Batterie Annes expended seven 15-cm high-explosive shells with ballistic cap and nose fuze, seven cartridge cases with charges, fourteen 15-cm practice shells and fourteen practice-charge cartridges. Batterie Elsass expended fourteen 17-cm high-explosive shells with nose fuze and fourteen full-charge cartridges, twelve 17-cm practice shells and twelve practice-charge cartridges. Combat ammunition was used in part because orders arrived late owing to transport delay.

19:00: No. 2 gun of 8./1265 operational again.

Roll 2422, scan 0822, original page 36.