26 March 1943 Part 1

26 March 1943 Channel Islands Sea Defence diary

Weather: wind 270°, 5 m/sec. At 15:00, FK 10 and FO 04 [designation as typed] destroyed a mine in grid square B.F. 3571. Ammunition expenditure: 215 rounds 2-cm and 200 rounds M.G. 34.

At 18:20, defensive-fire area A at St Peter Port was activated as an exercise.

Ammunition expenditure for the exercise: 7/Artillery Regiment 319, 12 rounds 10-cm; 8/Artillery Regiment 319, 18 rounds 10-cm; Army Coast Battery 353, 12 rounds 10.5-cm; Army Coast Battery 472, 7 rounds 22-cm; Army Coast Battery 354, 8 rounds 15.5-cm; Army Coast Battery 461, 8 rounds 15-cm; Army Coast Battery 462, 8 rounds 15-cm.

T-1022 Roll 2422, PG 37997, scans 0613–0614.