22 June 1944 Part 3

22 June 1944 Part 3 Command handover and communications with the islands

Date note: 22 June 1944.

Secret. Seventh Army Headquarters, Ia. 22 June 1944.

To Headquarters, LXXIV Army Corps and LXXXIV Army Corps.

1. With effect from 21 June, LXXIV Army Corps assumes command of 319th Infantry Division (Channel Islands).

2. Command documents concerning the mission, strength, organisation, armament and deployment of the forces on the Channel Islands, and the strength of their fortification development, are to be handed over by LXXXIV Army Corps and collected by LXXIV Army Corps.

3. The Army Signals Commander will arrange a separate decimetric radio link between LXXIV Army Corps and the Channel Islands and report its completion to LXXIV Army Corps.

Seventh Army Headquarters, Ia No. 1570/44 Secret, second issue.

After dispatch: LXXIV Army Corps; LXXXIV Army Corps; Ic; Army Signals Commander; Senior Quartermaster; Staff Officers for Artillery and Anti-Tank Defence; Army Engineer Commander; IIa/b; Ia/war diary. [Some distribution abbreviations faint.]

German Seventh Army Headquarters (AOK 7), NARA T-312 Roll 1565. Roll 1565 Jersey and Channel Islands English translations.docx, reference 55. Scan extracts: img102_13_23610_25672.jpg. Extract filenames identify the original image strip, section number and horizontal pixel boundaries; these are not archival frame numbers.