28 October 1943 Part 1

28–30 October 1943 Channel Islands battery construction

No special occurrences for 28–30 October. Construction report, Naval Artillery Battalion 604.

Batterie Mirus: all infantry and machine-gun positions were thoroughly overhauled and further expanded. The theatre barrack was completed and bunker entrances at No. 1 gun were fenced. Road work continued at No. 2 gun. The wire obstacle was moved to the glasshouses by No. 3 gun, and cable trenches were worked on. A 350-metre underground telephone cable from No. 4 gun to the farmhouse was laid one metre deep. The Artillery Weapons Command worked on the elevation-machine circuit.

Batterie Steinbruch: interior work continued in crew bunker No. 2 and anti-aircraft bunker No. 3. Anti-aircraft guns Nos. 1 and 6 were placed on their concrete positions and makeshift accommodation was established for their crews. Levelling was carried out in front of the communal barrack, the galley building, the anti-aircraft bunker, living bunker No. 2 and water tank No. 2. Concrete work around the galley building was completed. Construction of a water main to the fire-control post began and the infantry positions were further expanded. Camouflage over the gun walkways and the connecting routes from No. 1 gun to the crew and medical bunkers was completed. Siemens finished installing the machinery in the machine house.

Batterie Strassburg: two Tobruk positions were completed and operational, and two more were poured. In the course of extending the close-defence system, seventy infantry and machine-gun positions were built. Organisation Todt began levelling and camouflage work in the battery's foreground and along the trolley tracks.

Batterie Lothringen: camouflage work, infantry positions and searchlight position A continued. Organisation Todt continued installations in the new fire-control post. The Guernsey Artillery Weapons Command installed the rangefinder in the fire-control post's armoured rotating turret.

Naval Artillery Battalion 605, Batterie Annes: Organisation Todt poured living bunker I, removed the machinery and began stripping the shuttering. Battery personnel roofed the fire-control-post entrance and continued the work already begun.

T-1022 Roll 2422, scans 0714–0715.