8 July 1944 Part 2

8 July 1944 Part 2 Weekly assessment of fighting and shipping losses around the islands

b. Naval situation

Enemy supplies continued to be brought in on the already known, marked sea routes Southampton–Barfleur and Dover–Fécamp–Le Havre.

Nothing is yet known about enemy use of Cherbourg harbour.

In the Channel Islands area and off the north coast of Brittany there was increasing enemy reconnaissance and combat activity, accompanied by rising losses of our own warships and merchant shipping tonnage.

Enemy control of all routes into and out of the Breton ports, together with the mining of sea routes, continued.

German Seventh Army Headquarters (AOK 7), NARA T-312 Roll 1569. Roll 1569 Jersey and Channel Islands English translations.docx, reference 21. T312-1569.pdf, PDF pages 143, 144. PDF pages count from the first page of the supplied file.