5 May 1941 Part 2

5 May 1941 Registration of captured-gun coastal batteries, including Guernsey and Jersey

Editorial note: Only island rows are transcribed; the complete original table is embedded for context.

[Scan 0268.jpg] Copy. Army High Command, Army General Staff/Organization Branch (I). Headquarters, 5 May 1941. No. 3258/41 secret. [Operations Branch (II) No. 37 371/41 top secret, handwritten.] Reference: OKH/GenStdH/Org. Abt.(III) No. 2114/41 secret of 28 March 1941. Subject: Registration of captured batteries. To Commander-in-Chief West, Ninth Army Headquarters (T), Sixteenth Army Headquarters (T). For information: Chief of Army Armaments and Commander of Replacement Army/General Army Office.

Captured batteries employed for coastal protection on the Channel coast are entered in the wartime order of battle as equipment batteries and receive the following designations. Columns: serial number; designation; gun type; number of guns; deployment location.

Island rows, in source order: Battery 353, four French 7.5 cm field guns 97, Guernsey; Battery 354, four French 15.5 cm GPF guns, Guernsey; Battery 355, four French 7.5 cm field guns 97, Jersey; Battery 356, four French 15.5 cm GPF guns, Jersey. [Scan 0268.jpg]

Original source image 0268.jpg — T-78 Roll 317. Registration of captured-gun coastal batteries, including Guernsey and Jersey.

German Army High Command records, T-78 Roll 317. Supplied English translation T78_Roll_317_English_Translation.docx. Source images: 0268.jpg.