22 May 1944 Part 1

22 May 1944 Channel Islands Sea Defence diary

Weather: wind from 90°, 7 metres per second. 01:35: Cap de la Hague light unserviceable because the clock in the characteristic-signal mechanism was not working correctly.

09:30–09:32: Batterie Strassburg fired on four enemy Mustangs, bearing 50°–120°, range 1,500 metres, altitude 200 metres. Numerous hits reported on one aircraft, which the diary states crashed into the sea at bearing 180°, ten kilometres away. No enemy counteraction; no German losses. Ammunition expenditure: 110 rounds of 2-cm Oerlikon ammunition. [Aircraft loss is the diary's claim.]

Roll 2422, scan 0841, original page 53.