2 May 1944 Part 2

2 May 1944 Part 2 Islands around Guernsey and Alderney inspected

Date note: 2 May 1944.

Seventh Army Headquarters. Ia No. 561/44 Secret.

Army headquarters, 2 May 1944. Secret. Ia daily report.

I. Report to Commander in Chief West

1. Enemy situation (extract). On 1 May, lively reconnaissance activity and incursions by smaller formations in the areas of the 716th and 266th Infantry Divisions and western Brittany. Night of 1–2 May: inward and return flights by numerous aircraft over the Orne estuary and Morlaix area. Inward flights over Brest harbour entrance and into the sea areas of Lorient and the Loire estuary; presumably minelaying. On 2 May, bombing and strafing of four resistance nests 13 km northeast of Carentan. One soldier wounded; one medium French mortar in a field emplacement destroyed by a rocket bomb. About 12:15, attack with 25 bombs on Le Mans marshalling yard. Damage to wagons and tracks. One German and one French railwayman killed; one anti-aircraft soldier and two German railwaymen wounded. Further details not yet available.

2. Eighteen trains of the 77th Infantry Division have so far arrived in the new accommodation area.

3. Islands around Guernsey and Alderney, and in the area of Special-Purpose Divisional Command 136, inspected; no special findings.

II. Further reports

1. LXXXIV Army Corps. Machine-Gun Battalion 17: 1st and 2nd Companies moved to Querqueville; 3rd Company to Tourlaville.

2. XXV Army Corps. Moved: 3rd (anti-aircraft) Company, Anti-Tank Battalion 353, to Landerneau; 4th Company, North Caucasian Battalion 800 (265th Infantry Division), to Ménez Devel (1 km northeast of Plovan).

3. LXXIV Army Corps and 21st Panzer Division: nothing special to report.

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German Seventh Army Headquarters (AOK 7), NARA T-312 Roll 1565. Roll 1565 Jersey and Channel Islands English translations.docx, reference 27. Scan extracts: img049_10_17543_19521.jpg. Extract filenames identify the original image strip, section number and horizontal pixel boundaries; these are not archival frame numbers.