26 May 1944 Part 5

26 May 1944 Part 5 New anti-aircraft batteries ready on Guernsey and Jersey

Date note: 26 May 1944.

Seventh Army Headquarters. Ia No. 971/44 Secret.

Army headquarters, 26 May 1944. Secret. Ia daily report.

I. Report to Army Group B Headquarters

1. Enemy situation. Slight reconnaissance activity over Cotentin’s east coast. Increased air reconnaissance south of Saint-Brieuc. Bombs dropped on an artillery position near Ploufragan, 3 km south of Saint-Brieuc. Slight damage repaired.

2. Otherwise no special events.

II. Further reports

1. XXV Army Corps.

(a) Engineer Battalion 353, with headquarters and two companies, temporarily placed under 343rd Infantry Division; one company under 265th Infantry Division. Accommodation: headquarters and one company in the Locronan area; one company in the Pont-Croix area; one company in the Trégarvan area.

(b) Headquarters, II Battalion, Grenadier Regiment 896, moved to Kergatervao [name indistinct] (distance indistinct, southeast of Plouhinec).

(c) Eastern Battalion 643 [unit number indistinct] relieved I Battalion, Grenadier Regiment 985, in Saint-Nazaire Fortress. I Battalion, Grenadier Regiment 985 (275th Infantry Division), has taken over Coastal Defence Subgroup Saint-Michel.

2. LXXIV Army Corps. Coastal Defence Subgroup Cancale taken over by Eastern Battalion 602. II Battalion, Grenadier Regiment 1050 (77th Infantry Division), moving to the landward front of Saint-Malo Fortress.

3. LXXXIV Army Corps. III Battalion, Grenadier Regiment 739, withdrawn from coastal defence with 243rd Infantry Division and moved with 14th Company of that regiment, as corps reserve, to the Sainte-Croix-Hague–La Pasquerie–Château Bigard area. Battalion headquarters: Château Bigard (3 km northeast of Sainte-Croix-Hague).

Newly delivered emergency anti-aircraft batteries on Guernsey and Jersey, each with fifteen 2 cm guns, ready to fire.

4. II Parachute Corps: no special events.

4. [Number repeated in source.] 21st Panzer Division. Moved: 2nd Company, Panzer Engineer Battalion 220, to Gaillon (southwest of Les Andelys); 3rd Company to Creully (14 km northwest of Caen).

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German Seventh Army Headquarters (AOK 7), NARA T-312 Roll 1565. Roll 1565 Jersey and Channel Islands English translations.docx, reference 39. Scan extracts: img066_05_7938_9961.jpg. Extract filenames identify the original image strip, section number and horizontal pixel boundaries; these are not archival frame numbers.