14 October 1943

14 October 1943 Channel Islands Sea Defence diary

Weather: wind 315°, 2 m/sec. No. 2 gun of Batterie Falke, Alderney, was operational again.

15:00–16:30. During an inspection of the island by the Army Commander-in-Chief, Colonel-General Dollmann, Batterie Strassburg and the Army coastal batteries conducted practice firing. Ammunition expenditure: Batterie Strassburg, four 22-cm rounds; Army Coastal Battery 354, twelve 15.5-cm rounds; Army Coastal Batteries 462 and 463, twelve 15-cm rounds each; Army Coastal Battery 471, eight 22-cm rounds; Army Coastal Battery 472, four 22-cm rounds; Army Coastal Battery 464, twelve 21-cm rounds; Army Coastal Batteries 465 and 466, nine 21-cm rounds each.

T-1022 Roll 2422, scans 0708.