6 October 1943 Part 1

6–9 October 1943 Channel Islands battery construction

No special occurrences for 6–9 October. Construction report, Naval Artillery Battalion 604.

Batterie Mirus: infantry positions at the fire-control post were improved. Work continued on cable trenches and the interior of anti-aircraft position No. 1 was completed. The road from No. 1 gun to the service building was finished. Construction began on chevaux-de-frise, extension of the sentry position and repainting No. 4 gun. Organisation Todt fitted the doors in anti-aircraft bunker No. 9 and carried out shuttering on the superstructure of anti-aircraft position No. 4.

Batterie Mirus: ceilings in anti-aircraft bunkers Nos. 1, 2 and 3 were painted.

Batterie Steinbruch: work continued on the communal barrack, galley building, crew bunker No. 3 and the Tobruk and machine-gun positions. Organisation Todt poured Tobruk position No. 4 and shuttered the superstructure of anti-aircraft position No. 6. Siemens continued erecting and assembling machinery in the machine house. The L.B.K. apparatus was erected by the local Naval Artillery Weapons Command in co-operation with the battery.

Batterie Strassburg: the field-defence works continued. Trolley tracks at Nos. 2, 3 and 4 guns were completed. Work on the first Tobruk position continued.

Batterie Lothringen: the second minefield was completed. Camouflage, infantry positions and searchlight position A continued. Organisation Todt continued installations in the new fire-control post, excavation and partial laying of cable trenches, and installation of the armoured cupola and rangefinder cupola.

Naval Artillery Battalion 605, Batterie Annes: Organisation Todt poured the base of living bunker I and began further shuttering and reinforcement; levelling and banking continued. Battery personnel built a new position for the second 2-cm anti-aircraft gun and separately wired the third anti-aircraft gun. A drainage ditch was begun at the fire-control-post entrance; two drains were laid on the assembly ground and 40 metres of rifle trench excavated on the eastern side. Barbed wire was cleared and strengthened, fields of fire opened and levelling, banking and camouflage continued.

T-1022 Roll 2422, scans 0706–0707.