5 February 1943 Part 1

Summary

Coastal battery firing or engagement. Weather report

Location Details

Battery Lothringen

Diary Entry

5 February 1943 Channel Islands Sea Defence diary

Weather: wind 340°, 3–4 m/sec. No. 3 gun of Army Coast Battery 467 is operational again. From 2045 to 2100 Battery Lothringen practises firing illuminating shells (L.G.). Expenditure: three 15-cm and two 7.5-cm illuminating shells. One fails to illuminate because the time fuze was insufficiently pressed in [German: ungenügendes Eindrücken des Brennzünders].

Source of Information

T-1022 Roll 2422, PG 37997, scan 0593.