19 June 1943 Part 1

19 June 1943 Channel Islands Sea Defence diary

No special occurrences. Construction report, Naval Artillery Battalion 604.

Batterie Mirus: battery personnel continued work on the service building and gun wiring. Krupp fitters completed their work on No. 1 gun. Operating platforms were being laid at anti-aircraft positions I and II; work, chiefly excavation, continued at positions IV, V and VI. Embankment work at Nos. 2, 3 and 4 guns advanced, and the staircase at the turret entrance to No. 4 gun was completed. Work continued on the sports ground.

Batterie Strassburg: the timber lining of the interior rooms in the new fire-control post was completed. Work continued on cabling the new combat-control system. Mine-laying on the battery’s left flank as far as Martinseck was completed, together with the wire obstacle along the landward front.

Batterie Steinbruch: work on the telephone-cable trenches was completed. Excavation for three anti-aircraft positions and a water tank advanced well. The permanent telephone and alarm system was completed. Battery personnel continued the excavation, concreting and internal fitting-out of the communal barrack.

At Batterie Steinbruch, a temporary entrance to the fire-control post was made, repairs to the service barrack's roof were completed, and work began on laying floors and installing lining in living bunker IV.

Batterie Lothringen: work continued on the battery wiring. The lower storey of the fire-control post was poured. Excavation at searchlight B was completed, and a workroom for craftsmen was under construction.

Naval Artillery Battalion 605 — Batterie Annes: the previous week's work continued; otherwise there were no changes.

T-1022 Roll 2422, scans 0658–0659.