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27 November 1943 Part 3

Summary

Shipping and convoy movements. Battery construction or maintenance

Location Details

Jersey; Écréhous; Bayeux; Carentan

Diary Entry

27 November 1943 Corps daily report

Exchanges of positions: 1/729 to Saint-Côme-du-Mont, eight kilometres north of Carentan; 4/729 to Pouppeville, 2.5 kilometres east of Saint-Côme-du-Mont; 5/729 to Ginsterhöhe, four kilometres west of Montebourg; 6/729 to Saint-Nest [place-name uncertain]. Fortress Construction Engineer Company 17 has arrived at Biville, six kilometres north of Beaumont-Hague. Eastern Battalion 630 [last digit faint] has arrived at Bayeux. A company of Engineer Battalion 346 has moved to Planquery and Lingèvres [unit and locations faint]. Large Horse Transport Column 698 has finished departing. The outlying Channel Islands, except Écréhous near Jersey, have been checked; no enemy traces. Shipping between the islands and mainland has resumed.

Source of Information 

T-314 Roll 1604, T314_R1604_English_Translation.docx. 27 November 1943 | Source PDF pages 1215. Selected island-related text; document or report date governs placement.

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