11 March 1943
Summary
Coastal battery firing or engagement. Readiness or defensive orders. Training or inspection
Location Details
Jersey; Guernsey; Alderney
Diary Entry
11 March 1943 Channel Islands Sea Defence diary
Weather: wind 285°, 2 m/sec. Batterie Strasbourg fired eleven practice shells during a land-target exercise ordered for Guernsey by the 319th Infantry Division. Harbour-protection position 8 off Jersey could not be manned during the night of 11/12 March because of the shortage of boats.
The planned practice shoot into defensive-fire area A was carried out on Alderney. Ammunition expenditure: Batterie West, 4 rounds 15-cm; Batterie Elsaß, 12 rounds 17-cm. No defects or complaints were recorded.
Source of Information
T-1022 Roll 2422, PG 37997, scans 0607–0608.