24 October 1942 Part 1

24 October 1942 Channel Islands Sea Defence diary

Weather: wind from 225°, 3–4 metres per second.

No special occurrences.

Construction, Naval Artillery Battalion 604 — Batterie Mirus. Backfilling at the guns continued as in the previous week. Interior fitting of accommodation bunkers progressed through continued installation of heating and ventilation. Moving shells previously stacked provisionally outside the guns into the individual emplacements had begun. Final storage was undertaken wherever turret ammunition rooms were completely finished, but was not yet complete. Concreting of the accommodation bunker at the main fire-control post finished. After approval of the new wire-obstacle plan, work on obstacles at No. 3 gun began in the final days of the week with an engineer detachment’s assistance.

Batterie Strassburg: temporary camouflage of the four guns almost complete. Batterie Steinbruch: main fire-control post base poured; reserve post ready for occupation. Individual compartments in the gun surrounds smoothed and painted.

Naval Artillery Battalion 605 — Organisation Todt work. Fire-control post: drainage pipes continued. Turrets 1, 2 and 4: hoist installation. Turret 3: structure poured. Machinery bunker: excavation continued under a new plan. Excavation for ammunition-replenishment bunkers.

Battery’s own work: galley-cellar roof poured; all-round defence continued; motor garage erected; work on battery lighting network.

T-1022 Roll 2422, PG 37996, scans 0535–0536.