29 November 1942 Part 9

29 November 1942 Daylight relaxation of the island alert until December

Date note: Army-level instruction supplementing the naval diaries’ local readiness entries. An alert is not evidence of an attack.

Seventh Army Ia No. 5329/42, secret command matter, 29 November 1942. To XXV, LXXXIV and LXXXVII Corps.

Commander-in-Chief West has ordered:

1. Alert Level I is lifted during daylight. It automatically resumes from darkness until daylight. This arrangement applies until the morning of 2 December 1942. Thereafter Army headquarters will issue the necessary orders case by case according to the situation and weather.

2. Continue to pay the closest attention to active and passive troop air defence.

After despatch: Senior Quartermaster, Ic and Ia war diary. [Handwritten receipt annotations list corps contacts; names only partly legible.]

German Seventh Army records, T-312 Roll 1548. T312 Roll 1548 English translation REVIEWED EDITION 4.docx. Local source scans: 1144.jpg.