6 February 1944 Part 3

6 February 1944 Bombing attack on the Alderney convoy

Editorial note: This passage follows events of 5 February within the 6 February diary entry. The attack is reported for the evening of 5 February. It concerns the convoy route, rather than a bombing of Alderney itself.

At about 21.30 hours, two aircraft made an unsuccessful bombing attack on the Alderney–Cherbourg convoy near the Cap de la Hague lighthouse.

Original source image — T-312 Roll 1564, PDF page 189. Bombing attack on the Alderney convoy.

German Seventh Army records, NARA T-312 Roll 1564. T312_R1564_Jersey_and_Channel_Islands_English_Translation.docx, extract 10. Seventh Army war diary. Source PDF page 189. PDF page numbers count from the first page of T312-1564.pdf, not the photographed frame or handwritten folio.