21 July 1943 Part 2

21–24 July 1943 Channel Islands battery construction

No special occurrences for 21–24 July. Construction report, Naval Artillery Battalion 604.

Batterie Mirus, battery work: gun wiring, the sports ground, infantry positions and day room at No. 2 gun, levelling and roads at Nos. 2 and 3, and the washing barrack at No. 4 continued. The wall at No. 3 gun’s bunker entrance and the staircase on the upper gun walkway were completed. The red house received a concrete roof after removal of the old one. Weapons were mounted on anti-aircraft positions 1 and 2.

Mirus, Organisation Todt: embankment work continued at Nos. 2–4 guns, with camouflage at No. 3. Reinforcement and part of the shuttering at anti-aircraft position 4 were completed. Excavation at position 5 was finished and the blinding layer at position 6 poured. Excavation continued at positions 7 and 8 and began at position 9. Ovel and Bruns carried out gardening at No. 2 gun. The engineer staff made the iron doors from the bunkers to the guns and exits at Nos. 1 and 4 guns capable of being closed.

Batterie Steinbruch: interior work continued in the service and communal barracks and on the galley drainage; a room in the fire-control post was lined and flooring laid in the crew bunker. Wooden stairs were made for the searchlight, infantry positions extended and work continued on burying a petrol tank. Organisation Todt continued work on the fire-control post, ammunition replenishment bunker and anti-aircraft positions Nos. 1 and 6. Siemens and Naval Artillery Arsenal personnel continued cabling and the Epa and Seipa installation.

Batterie Strassburg: the new fire-control post was fitted out and telephone connections laid to the post and guns. Work continued on the ammunition bunker for the fifth Oerlikon gun and on monorails for chain hoists in the other ammunition bunkers. Two minefields were laid and iron rails began to be placed in the meadows. Organisation Todt completed cable relocation and excavated a trench for the fire-control-post water pipe; the heating installation was completed.

Batterie Lothringen: work continued on the office barrack, infantry defences and horticultural camouflage. Organisation Todt poured the second storey of the fire-control post and continued the ready-use ammunition niches.

Naval Artillery Battalion 605 — Batterie Annes: previously begun work continued; otherwise no changes.

T-1022 Roll 2422, scans 0673–0674.