21 May 1942 Part 4

21 May 1942 Island division transfers to Seventh Army

At midday on 21 May, Higher Command XXXXIII Army Corps, with 716th, 320th and 319th Infantry Divisions and 7th Air Division, left Fifteenth Army and transferred to Seventh Army. Generaloberst Haase thanked General of Artillery Behlendorff, the divisional commanders and all ranks for their service and expressed confidence in the coastal front they had created. Generaloberst Dollmann welcomed the formations to Seventh Army and demanded continued energy, construction work and constant defensive readiness.

T-314 Roll 1603, T314_Roll_1603_English_Translation.docx. Source PDF pages 0269–0270 | Annexes 1 and 2 to the May activity report