26 November 1942 Part 1

Summary

Coastal battery firing or engagement. Training or inspection. Weather report

Location Details

Battery Lothringen

Diary Entry

26 November 1942 Channel Islands Sea Defence diary

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

09:30: 319th Infantry Division cancelled “Threatened danger”.

Full-calibre practice firing at an 8 × 40-metre towed target: Batterie Lothringen, 09:28–09:44; Army Coastal Battery 470, 10:18–10:25; Army Coastal Battery 356, 14:01–14:13; and Army Coastal Batteries 467 and 468 [times not printed]. Expenditure: Lothringen, forty-eight 15-cm explosive shells; Battery 470, thirty 22-cm rounds; Battery 356, nineteen 15.5-cm rounds; Battery 467, thirty 21-cm rounds; Battery 468, thirty 21-cm rounds. No defects. This concluded the Channel Islands batteries’ firing period. From 18:00, 319th Infantry Division ordered “Threatened danger”.

Signed Steinbach.

Source of Information

T-1022 Roll 2422, PG 37996, scans 0557.