24 November 1942 Part 1

Summary

Training or inspection. Weather report

Location Details

Channel Islands

Diary Entry

24 November 1942 Channel Islands Sea Defence diary

Weather: wind from 90°, 3–4 metres per second.

09:02: 319th Infantry Division cancelled “Threatened danger”. Full-calibre practice firing at a towed target by Army Coastal Batteries 464, 465 and 466 from 11:04–11:15, and Batteries 471 and 472 from 14:01–15:52. Expenditure: eighteen 21-cm practice shells; forty-two 21-cm high-explosive shells; eighty 22-cm explosive shells. From 18:00, 319th Infantry Division ordered “Threatened danger”. Otherwise no special occurrences.

Signed Steinbach.

Source of Information

T-1022 Roll 2422, PG 37996, scans 0556.