18 June 1944 Part 4

Summary

Proposed transfer of the islands to LXXIV Army Corps.

Location Details

Channel Islands; St Malo

Diary Entry

18 June 1944 Part 4 Proposed transfer of the islands to LXXIV Army Corps

Date note: 18 June 1944.

Secret. Seventh Army Headquarters, Ia. 18 June [1944]. To Army Group B Headquarters.

Army Headquarters intends to place the Channel Islands (319th Infantry Division) under LXXIV Army Corps in order to relieve LXXXIV Army Corps and because communications from Saint-Malo are better.

Seventh Army Headquarters, Ia No. 1519/44 Secret.

[Handwritten: approved, Commander in Chief; reading tentative.]

After dispatch: war diary; O1.

Source of Information

German Seventh Army Headquarters (AOK 7), NARA T-312 Roll 1565. Roll 1565 Jersey and Channel Islands English translations.docx, reference 48. Scan extracts: img093_03_4034_6036.jpg. Extract filenames identify the original image strip, section number and horizontal pixel boundaries; these are not archival frame numbers.