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2 February 1943

Summary

Shipping and convoy movements. Military organisation or personnel

Location Details

Cherbourg; Valognes

Diary Entry

2 February 1943 Operations daily report

Transfers: 4/739 to Cherbourg; 7/739 to Tourlaville; headquarters III/739 to Beaumont-Hague; 9/739 to Digulleville; 11/739 to Vauville; 12/739 to Branville [reading uncertain]. Headquarters of Machine-Gun Battalion 17 to Château Le Bigard, east of Sainte-Croix-Hague; 1st and 2nd Companies to Sainte-Croix-Hague; 3rd Company to Branville. 1/709th Engineer Battalion to Château de Rochemont, eight kilometres north-northwest of Valognes. Shipping with the Channel Islands has partly resumed. No further special incidents.

Source of Information 

T-314 Roll 1604, T314_R1604_English_Translation.docx. 2 February 1943 | Source PDF pages 234. Selected island-related text; document or report date governs placement.

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