7 June 1944 Part 2

7 June 1944 Part 2 Attack on Saint Peter Port in the midday report

Date note: 7 June 1944.

Secret Command Matter. Seventh Army Headquarters, Ia. 7 June [1944].

To Army Group B Headquarters; copy to 13th Anti-Aircraft Division.

Ia midday report, 7 June.

(a) I SS Panzer Corps. Corps command post at Saint-Germain-le-Vasson. At 09:57 the foremost elements of 12th SS Panzer Division were in the area southwest of Caen–Villers-Bocage. At 09:57 the foremost elements of Panzer Lehr Division were west of Thury-Harcourt. Enemy tanks assembling north of Caen opposite 716th Infantry Division.

(b) LXXXIV Army Corps. At 07:30, preparations for a tank attack northeast of Bayeux against 352nd Infantry Division. Further landings in the Saint-Laurent-sur-Mer bridgehead area. New airborne landings east of the Vire near Neuilly and northwest of Carentan. Airborne landings in the Coutances area not yet fully clarified. At 10:46, Battery Marcouf surrounded by paratroops. At 10:56, bombing and strafing attack on Saint Peter Port, Guernsey.

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(c) LXXIV Army Corps. At 09:30, ten fighter-bombers bombed and strafed Saint-Malo Fortress. Hospital, one patrol vessel and one hospital ship hit. Damage slight.

(d) XXV Army Corps. Lively reconnaissance activity over the 343rd Infantry Division and Ouessant. Movement of the battle group of 275th Infantry Division has begun.

Seventh Army Headquarters, Ia No. 2858/44 Secret Command Matter.

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