8 October 1941 Part 3

8 October 1941 Review requested of island artillery ammunition reserves

[Scan 1142.jpg] Operations Branch IIa, no. 38028/41 [number partly unclear], secret. 8 October 1941. To the General of Artillery at Army High Command. Handwritten date: 10 October 1941.

The following artillery ammunition holdings are stocked on the British Channel Islands. Please examine whether these stocks are sufficient successfully to repel a decisive enemy assault lasting several days, launched by sea and air, on the assumption that replenishment has been interrupted.

Artillery ammunition. Guernsey: four 7.5 cm guns, 4,000 rounds; eight 10 cm (Czech) field howitzers, 7,200; eight 15 cm guns, 4,248; four French 15.5 cm guns, 1,760; nine 21 cm mortars 18, 2,700; four French 22 cm guns 17, 960; four French naval 22 cm guns, 1,200. Jersey: four French 7.5 cm guns, 4,000 rounds; eight Czech 10 cm howitzers, 7,200; four French 15.5 cm guns, 1,760; nine 21 cm mortars 18, 2,700; three naval 15 cm guns, 894. Alderney: four 15 cm guns 18, 1,860 rounds; three naval 17 cm guns, 1,659.

Original source image 1142.jpg — T-78 Roll 317. Review requested of island artillery ammunition reserves.

German Army High Command records, T-78 Roll 317. Supplied English translation T78_Roll_317_English_Translation.docx. Source images: 1142.jpg.