29 February 1944 Part 3

29 February 1944 February island vehicle release return

Editorial note: The scan is undated, filed between 16 and 19 February orders, and is linked by the 17 February diary to Annex 13. Placed on the final calendar day of February for ordering only; 29 February is not an asserted document or transfer date. The printed totals do not fully reconcile.

[PDF page 953] Annex 13. Summary of vehicles to be released from the islands by the 319th Infantry Division, Field Commandant 515 Jersey and Army Motor Vehicle Park 528. [Undated in this scan; filed between orders of 16 and 19 February 1944.]

Columns: motorcycles; passenger cars; trucks (number and capacity in tonnes); delivery vans (number and capacity in tonnes); transferred to; handed over to. Blank source cells are retained as “not stated”.

1. 319th Infantry Division. a) Guernsey: 19 motorcycles, 26 cars, 11 trucks/27.5 tonnes; no vans; transferred to St-Malo, handed to Motor Vehicle Park 528. b) Jersey: 6 motorcycles, 39 cars, 14 trucks/21.5 tonnes; no vans; transferred to Granville, handed to LXXXIV Corps. c) Jersey, vehicle reserve of Commander Jersey: no motorcycles, 49 cars, 8 trucks/12.5 tonnes, 24 vans/9.5 tonnes. d) Jersey, taken over from fortress engineer staff: 1 motorcycle, 11 cars, 1 truck/2 tonnes. e) Alderney: no motorcycles, 4 cars, 7 trucks/11 tonnes; transferred to Cherbourg, handed to Motor Vehicle Park 528. f) Mainland: no motorcycles, 6 cars, 3 trucks/8 tonnes.

2. Wehrmacht Supply Staff. Guernsey: 1 motorcycle; transferred to St-Malo, handed to Motor Vehicle Park 528.

3. Field Commandant 515, civilian sector. a) Jersey: 13 motorcycles, 83 cars, 161 trucks/266.5 tonnes, 7 vans/8 tonnes. b) Guernsey: 28 motorcycles, 105 cars, 16 trucks, 20 vans; capacities not stated. Footnote: according to provisional information from the 319th Infantry Division.

4. Field Commandant 515, earmarked for release from actual holdings. a) Jersey: 6 cars, 2 trucks/3 tonnes. b) Guernsey: 2 cars. c) Alderney: 1 car.

5. Army Motor Vehicle Park 528, purchased on Guernsey: 4 motorcycles, 210 cars; faint entries appear to read 40 trucks and 40 vans [uncertain and not consistent with printed totals]. Total as printed: 72 motorcycles, 542 cars, 222 trucks/352 tonnes, 91 vans; 927 vehicles. [The source's totals do not all reconcile with its visible individual entries; figures have not been silently corrected.]

T-312 Roll 1570, Seventh Army records. Supplied English translation T312_R1570_English_Translation.docx. PDF page 953; undated Annex 13. Selected island-related extract; PDF page numbers refer to the source reel as numbered in the supplied translation.