21 February 1944 Part 1

21 February 1944 Channel Islands Sea Defence diary

Weather: wind from 90°, 15 metres per second. At 15:47 Batterie Annes fired with light anti-aircraft weapons at a British Mosquito passing from north-west to north-east, altitude 700 metres, range 1,500 metres. Hits were observed on the fuselage and both wings. No enemy counter-action or German losses. Ammunition expenditure: fifteen 2-cm rounds.

At 14:48 [time as typed; listed after 15:47 in the original], Batterie Elsass fired with a 2-cm Oerlikon at the same aircraft passing from south-west to north-east, altitude 600 metres, range 800 metres. No hits observed, no enemy counter-action or German losses. Ammunition expenditure: thirty-two 2-cm rounds. [The inconsistent time is retained rather than silently corrected.]

Roll 2422, scan 0794, original page 16.