25 May 1944 Part 3

25 May 1944 Part 3 Outlying islands inspected: transmitted version

Date note: 25 May 1944.

Seventh Army Headquarters, Ia. 25 May [1944]. Secret.

To Army Group B Headquarters.

Ia daily report of 25 May 1944.

1. Individual reconnaissance between the Orne and Vire estuaries, in the coastal area between Roscoff and Lannilis, and in the sea areas of Ouessant, Brest and Belle-Île. Night reconnaissance with photographic flash bombs southwest of Mézidon and near Falaise.

Bombing and strafing attacks:

LXXXIV Army Corps: I. Nil report. II. At 09:00 on Vire station; slight material damage. One armoured locomotive unserviceable.

LXXIV and XXV Army Corps and II Parachute Corps: nil reports under I and II.

2. Islands lying off Guernsey and Alderney inspected; no special findings.

Seventh Army Headquarters, Ia No. 947/44 Secret.

[This is a separate transmitted version of the preceding report. It adds the armoured-locomotive detail and omits unit moves; the repeated island statement is present in the source.]

German Seventh Army Headquarters (AOK 7), NARA T-312 Roll 1565. Roll 1565 Jersey and Channel Islands English translations.docx, reference 38. Scan extracts: img065_12_21595_23536.jpg. Extract filenames identify the original image strip, section number and horizontal pixel boundaries; these are not archival frame numbers.