18 October 1943

18 October 1943 Channel Islands Sea Defence diary

Weather: wind 90°, 7 m/sec. From 08:30 to 13:30 the following Army coastal batteries on Guernsey conducted autumn calibre-practice firing at an 8 × 40-metre towed target. Ammunition expenditure: Army Coastal Battery 464, thirty 21-cm rounds; Army Coastal Battery 465, thirty 21-cm rounds; Army Coastal Battery 466, thirty 21-cm rounds; Army Coastal Battery 354, thirty-five 15.5-cm rounds; Army Coastal Battery 471, twenty-eight 22-cm rounds; Army Coastal Battery 472, thirty-three 22-cm rounds. No objections were raised. No. 4 gun of Batterie Strassburg, Guernsey, was out of action.

T-1022 Roll 2422, scans 0711.