18 November 1942 Part 1

18 November 1942 Channel Islands Sea Defence diary

Weather: wind from 115°, 1 metres per second.

09:15: 319th Infantry Division cancelled “Threatened danger”. From 18:00 it ordered that readiness grade again.

23:15–23:42: batteries Elsass and West on Alderney fired three illumination fans and, with Batterie Blücher, engaged unidentified radar targets from grid BF 3542, upper right corner, to grid 3518, lower edge right. In the first illumination fan an E-boat was briefly sighted; it turned north without firing a recognition signal. The detected targets also turned north towards the English coast after being fired upon. No hits observed; no hostile counteraction or German losses.

Ammunition expenditure: fifteen 17-cm illumination shells; three 15-cm illumination shells; thirty-five 17-cm shells with ballistic caps; thirty-three 15-cm shells with ballistic caps.

Signed Steinbach.

T-1022 Roll 2422, PG 37996, scans 0550.