6 March 1944 Part 3

6 March 1944 Naval Artillery Battalion 605 construction report

Batterie Annes, Organisation Todt: pipes at accommodation bunker I completely laid during the preceding week and the trench filled. Levelling and earth banking at the bunker continued. Painting finished in bunker 3 and continued in bunker 4. Rust removal from the ceiling begun in the fire-control post and accommodation bunker II. The camouflage detachment continued levelling and camouflage in the battery.

Battery work: excavation at searchlight Bruno complete and levelling of the base begun. Excavation of the communication trench from the fire-control accommodation bunker to the fire-control post continued. Battery wire obstacles, levelling and camouflage continued.

Batterie Elsass: battery wire obstacles and construction at the reserve fire-control post continued. Artillery command post, Organisation Todt: partitions built in readiness and wireless rooms; telephone cable laid to the underground cable termination; bunker doors made operable; bunker beds installed; earth banking and insulation. Naval radar: splinter protection. Battalion headquarters: infantry-defence installations developed.

Roll 2422, scan 0808, original page 25; retrospective report incorporated in the 19 March Sea Defence entry.