3 March 1944 Part 1

3 March 1944 Part 1 Aircraft movements over Guernsey and Jersey

Date note: 3 March 1944.

Seventh Army Headquarters

Ia No. 1428/44 Secret

Army headquarters, 3 March 1944

Secret

Ia evening report

I Report to Commander in Chief West

1. Enemy situation

On 2 March, inward and passage flights by some aircraft in the area Orne estuary–Guernsey–Jersey–Avranches–St-Malo.

At about 15:00, approximately 30 aircraft, and at about 21:00 approximately 70 aircraft, passed over the Orne estuary.

During the night of 2–3 March, individual aircraft circled over the Villedieu–Avranches–Dinan area. Mixed-load containers were presumably dropped in the Avranches area. Search operations have so far produced no result.

On 3 March, coastal inward and passage flights by individual aircraft and smaller formations in the Orne estuary area.

2. The last train of the 3rd Parachute Division, out of a total of 15 trains, has arrived.

3. The island Sénèque [source spelling appears Senéquet], in the 709th Infantry Division sector, was inspected. No special findings.

II Further reports from

1. XXV Army Corps

(a) Headquarters, IV Battalion, Artillery Regiment 353, 353rd Infantry Division, moved to Plouescat, 343rd Infantry Division sector. Battery accommodation locations will be reported subsequently.

(b) 1st Company, Grenadier Regiment 898, moved to 1.5 km west of Morgat, and 3rd Company to Dinan, 4 km west of Morgat, 343rd Infantry Division.

(c) Transfer of Eastern Battalion III/4 into the LXXIV Army Corps area has begun.

2. LXXXIV and LXXIV Army Corps and LVIII Reserve Panzer Corps: nothing special to report.

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