30 December 1943 Part 1

Summary

Aircraft movements and observations. Coastal battery firing or engagement. Air or sea observations

Location Details

Guernsey; Alderney; Battery Elsass

Diary Entry

30 December 1943 Channel Islands Sea Defence diary

Weather: wind from 300°, 4 m/sec. From 08:50 to 08:52 Batterie Strasbourg, Guernsey, engaged a hostile aircraft identified as a Wellington. No hits were observed and there was no enemy counter-action. Ammunition expenditure: 289 rounds of 2-cm ammunition.

From 09:07 to 09:09 Batterie Elsass, Alderney, engaged a hostile aircraft of unidentified type. Hits were observed and there was no enemy counter-action. Ammunition expenditure: sixty rounds of 2-cm ammunition.

Source of Information

T-1022 Roll 2422, scans 0742.