18 February 1944 Part 2

18 February 1944 Part 2 Further interruption of island shipping

Date note: 18 February 1944.

Seventh Army Headquarters. Ia No. 1061/44 Secret. Army headquarters, 18 February 1944. Secret. Ia evening report.

I. Report to Commander in Chief West.

1. Enemy situation: nothing special to report.

2. Shipping between the Channel Islands and the mainland suspended owing to stormy weather.

II. Further reports.

a. LXXXIV Army Corps. Moved: 10th Battery, Artillery Regiment 352, 352nd Infantry Division, to Couvains, 8 km northeast of Saint-Lô; 2nd Company, Anti-Tank Battalion 709, 709th Infantry Division, to Bricquebec, 11 km west-southwest of Valognes; 3rd Company, Fortress Cadre Battalion LXXXIV, to Tourlaville, 3 km east of Cherbourg.

b. LXXIV Army Corps. 1st Company, Engineer Battalion 353, 353rd Infantry Division, arrived in Morlaix and 2nd Company in Paimpol. Quartering locations will follow.

XXV Army Corps and LVIII Reserve Panzer Corps: nothing special to report.

[Signature] [name not securely legible].

German Seventh Army Headquarters (AOK 7), NARA T-312 Roll 1565. Roll 1565 Jersey and Channel Islands English translations.docx, reference 10. Scan extracts: img013_03_4133_6186.jpg. Extract filenames identify the original image strip, section number and horizontal pixel boundaries; these are not archival frame numbers.