24 June 1944 Part 3

24 June 1944 Part 3 Telephone communications through the Channel Islands

Date note: 24 June 1944.

Secret. Urgent. Seventh Army Headquarters, Ia, to Army Group B Headquarters. Ia midday report, 24 June 1944.

1. LXXXVI Army Corps: no new reports.

2. I SS Panzer Corps: enemy penetration north of Hottot eliminated. Enemy pushed back to the line southern edge of Tilly–Longraye.

3. XXXXVII Panzer Corps: nothing special to report.

4. II Parachute Corps: enemy artillery fire resumed. La Meauffe again reported free of enemy.

5. LXXXIV Army Corps: nothing special to report.

6. Group von Schlieben: heavy bombing of Strongpoint 255, Fort du Roule. Repeater bunker at Rouges Terres taken by the enemy. Telephone communication through the Channel Islands is being restored. The enemy has not yet renewed the attack; the general expects it on 25 June.

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In the southeast, 8th Battery, Artillery Regiment 1709, destroyed by shellfire. Maritime station destroyed; entire harbour rendered unusable [source: verseucht, literally contaminated; the means is not specified].

7. LXXIV Army Corps: at 10:00 five fighter-bombers attacked Saint-Malo; damage not yet known.

8. XXV Army Corps: nothing special to report.

Seventh Army Headquarters, Ia No. 1755/44 Secret. Signed Pemsel. Certified correct: [signature indistinct], Major, General Staff.

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