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12 June 1944
Summary
Air attack or aircraft engagement. Coastal battery firing or engagement. Air or sea observations
Location Details
Guernsey; Alderney; Battery Mirus; Battery Annes
Diary Entry
12 June 1944
Batteries Annes and Blucher, Alderney, engaged radar-located targets about six nautical miles south of Alderney from 02:40. The targets withdrew westwards after the firing. Two hostile aircraft passing over Guernsey were reported shot down by the local troop anti-aircraft defences and Batteries Mirus and Steinbruch. [T-1022/2174, PG 38468, scans 0368 and 0376]
Source of Information
T-1022 Rolls 2174–2175, Admiral Channel Coast. Source section in Version 1.74.
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