18 September 1943 Part 1

18 September 1943 Channel Islands Sea Defence diary

Weather: wind 315°, 4 m/sec. No. 4 gun of Army Coastal Battery 356 was out of action while being overhauled at the island naval arsenal.

Construction report, Naval Artillery Battalion 604.

Batterie Steinbruch: interior work continued in the galley, communal barrack and bunker rooms for the fire-control-post personnel. Work on the new water pipe continued. Storage of ammunition in the ammunition replenishment bunker was completed. Organisation Todt poured the superstructure of anti-aircraft bunker No. 1, anti-aircraft bunker No. 3 and the Tobruk position at the fire-control post. The working floor was poured at anti-aircraft bunker No. 4, and excavation for Nos. 4 and 5 was completed. Siemens completed and handed over the Epa and Seipa installation. Heating in living bunker II was completed, while ventilation work continued in living bunker III and the fire-control post.

Batterie Strassburg: drainage work and extension of field positions and trolley tracks continued, together with work on the two 7.5-cm positions. Batterie Lothringen continued work on its minefield and camouflage; Organisation Todt began erecting the armoured cupola on the new fire-control post. Naval Artillery Battalion 605, Batterie Annes, continued its previously begun work without other changes.

T-1022 Roll 2422, scans 0699.