6 August 1943 Part 2

6 August 1943 Intelligence branch activity report for July

Training: on 26 July at Saint-Lô, a representative of Air District Command Western France instructed army officers in reading and using aerial photographs. Participants came from corps headquarters, 389th Division, I/Panzer Regiment 100 and Corps Signals Battalion 460. Further divisional courses took place at Caen on 27 July, Valognes on 29 July and subsequently in the Channel Islands. No ship-recognition course took place at Cherbourg that month.

By army order, the civilian ration reduction in the Channel Islands was lifted from 1 August. Corps order Ic 5720/43 defined prisoner collecting points and responsibilities for interrogation and onward movement. One additional interpreter for each of the 709th and 716th Divisions’ collecting points was requested for combat employment.

T-314 Roll 1604, T314_R1604_English_Translation.docx. 6 August 1943 | Source PDF pages 775–776. Selected island-related text; document or report date governs placement.