7 November 1943 Part 1

7 November 1943 Channel Islands Sea Defence diary

Weather: wind 360°, 6 m/sec. The Jersey naval radar set was operational again; the Alderney naval radar set was out of action.

Construction report, Naval Artillery Battalion 604.

Batterie Mirus: infantry positions were overhauled and road building continued. The gates protecting No. 4 gun were wired. Work continued on a residential barrack at anti-aircraft position No. 5 and on anti-aircraft bunkers Nos. 1, 2 and 9. The theatre barrack was supplied with fire extinguishers. Krupp worked on No. 3 gun.

Batterie Steinbruch: No. 3 anti-aircraft gun was placed on anti-aircraft bunker No. 3 and its interior was completed. Infantry positions and the lining and fitting-out of crew bunkers Nos. 1 and 2 continued.

Batterie Steinbruch: levelling was carried out in front of the galley. The water main to the main fire-control post, guns Nos. 3 and 4 and the medical bunker was continued. The walkway around the galley building was cemented and levelling before the communal barrack completed. Camouflage work covered the entrances to the guns and crew bunkers, anti-aircraft positions, and the entrances to the main fire-control post, main ammunition bunker and water tanks. Road work continued. Two Siemens machines in the machine house were accepted.

Batterie Strassburg: close-defence work continued. Organisation Todt carried out camouflage and foreground levelling, and ventilation was installed in the new fire-control post.

Batterie Lothringen: camouflage, infantry positions and searchlight position A continued. Fields of fire were cleared, installation of the armoured hoods began, and Organisation Todt continued installations in the new fire-control post.

Batterie Annes: work continued without material change.

T-1022 Roll 2422, scans 0719–0720.