4 June 1944 Part 2

4 June 1944 Part 2 Attack on the Saint-Georges radar installation, Guernsey

Date note: 4 June 1944.

Secret. Urgent. Seventh Army Headquarters, Ia, 4 June [1944]. To Army Group B Headquarters.

Supplement to the Ia daily report of 3 June 1944.

Reconnaissance over the LXXXIV Army Corps area and Finistère coastal area. Main focus: Caen–Barfleur and Falaise–Vire.

Bombing and strafing attacks:

LXXXIV Army Corps. La Pernelle height attacked twice; one Würzburg radar set put out of action. Luftwaffe strongpoint Douvres attacked by sixteen Typhoons with sixty-four rocket bombs; equipment under construction badly damaged. Saint-Georges radar installation, Guernsey, attacked by sixteen aircraft with rockets; also attacks on battery positions, partly with rocket bombs, and on one resistance nest.

I. A. c: six undamaged. B. b: one 3.7 cm anti-tank gun. [Original reporting categories retained; their key is not supplied on this page.]

II. Attacks on railway installations without damage.

XXV Army Corps. Four bombs on two resistance nests; two bombs on a mine-clearance pathfinder vessel (Sperrbrecher). I. A. c: two undamaged.

II. Ten to twelve fighter-bombers attacked Camp Brigitte near Loudéac. Forest fire in the camp; individual petrol drums leaked. Four aircraft attacked the station area at Saint-Thégonnec; one locomotive out of action.

II Parachute Corps. Strafing of a French bus: three French people killed, several injured.

Seventh Army Headquarters, Ia No. 1115/44 Secret, second issue. [Signature indistinct.]

German Seventh Army Headquarters (AOK 7), NARA T-312 Roll 1565. Roll 1565 Jersey and Channel Islands English translations.docx, reference 41. Scan extracts: img071_04_5854_7832.jpg. Extract filenames identify the original image strip, section number and horizontal pixel boundaries; these are not archival frame numbers.