7 November 1942 Part 1

7 November 1942 Channel Islands Sea Defence diary

Weather: wind from 225°, 4–5 metres per second.

No special occurrences.

Construction, Naval Artillery Battalion 604 — Batterie Mirus: interior work in the crew accommodation bunkers continued. Earthworks began for the new barrack camp. Wire obstacles made further progress. Batterie Strassburg: no changes.

Batterie Steinbruch: reinforcement weaving in the lower storey of the fire-control post nearly complete. Lighting installation around the guns and in the ammunition bunkers was to begin in the following week; the battery would supply labour and Siemens the materials. Excavation for accommodation bunkers: No. 1 gun about one-third complete; No. 2 not begun; No. 3 about two-thirds complete; No. 4 entirely complete.

Naval Artillery Battalion 605 — Organisation Todt work. Fire-control post: shuttering and reinforcement continued. Turrets 1 and 3: hoists installed. Turrets 2 and 4: iron doors and hoists installed. Machinery-bunker work was not continued. Excavation for ammunition bunkers continued; a second replenishment bunker was being excavated. Permanent access road to the battery centre continued.

Battery’s own work: construction of new kitchen, all-round wire obstacles and motor garage. All four guns ready to fire. The battery was making its own metre-elevation arcs for an emplacement height of 80 metres.

Signed Steinbach.

T-1022 Roll 2422, PG 37996, scans 0542–0543.