27 September 1943 Part 1

27 September 1943 Channel Islands Sea Defence diary

Weather: wind 360°, 3 m/sec. From 09:45 to 16:45, Batterie Steinbruch conducted 7.5-cm Abkomm practice firing. Ten runs were fired without objection. Ammunition expenditure: 387 rounds of 7.5-cm Abkomm practice ammunition.

16:30. Batterie Strassburg engaged an aircraft identified as a Boeing I passing from 100° to 240° with four 2-cm Oerlikon guns. Several hits on the fuselage were observed. The aircraft strafed the battery; there were no casualties. Ammunition expenditure: 252 rounds, 2 cm. No. 1 gun of Army Coastal Battery 356, Jersey, and No. 1 gun of Army Coastal Battery 464, Guernsey, were out of action.

Retrospective convoy departure recorded under 28 September: at 20:30 on 27 September, a convoy left St Malo for Jersey. The wind was westerly, force 3–4, with a slight swell and sea state 2.

T-1022 Roll 2422, scans 0702.