21 November 1942 Part 1

21 November 1942 Channel Islands Sea Defence diary

Weather: wind from 70°, 1 metres per second.

09:00: 319th Infantry Division cancelled “Threatened danger”; ordered it again from 18:00. Otherwise no special occurrences.

Construction, Naval Artillery Battalion 604 — Batterie Mirus. Formwork removed from the covered passage between fire-control post and its accommodation bunker; earth covering underway. Interior of No. 1 gun bunker complete except some doors and the air-conditioning installation. Interior work continued in the other gun bunkers. Excavation for the new barrack camp and wire obstacles continued.

Batterie Strassburg: temporary fire-control post construction begun; working base laid for the main control post. The unsuccessful screen camouflage over No. 4 gun removed; all guns now concealed with camouflage frames. The battery now had a makeshift L.B. device [source abbreviation retained].

Batterie Steinbruch: lower storey of main control post poured. Lighting provisionally complete at all guns. Accommodation bunker for No. 4 gun shuttered; excavation progressing for the other accommodation bunkers.

Naval Artillery Battalion 605 — Organisation Todt work. Control-post shuttering and reinforcement continued. Turrets 1 and 3: hoists installed; 2 and 4: iron doors and hoists installed. Machinery-bunker work was not continued. Ammunition-replenishment bunker: shuttering and reinforcement continued; excavation continued at the second replenishment bunker.

Battery’s own work: common room and canteen; construction of the senior NCOs’ barrack; all-round wire and motor garage continued. All four guns ready to fire.

Signed Steinbach.

T-1022 Roll 2422, PG 37996, scans 0554–0555.