24 June 1944
Summary
Air attack or aircraft engagement. Coastal battery firing or engagement. Air or sea observations
Location Details
Jersey; Guernsey; Alderney; St Helier; St Malo; Battery Annes
Diary Entry
24 June 1944
Aircraft dropped six objects, believed to be mines, approximately half a kilometre outside the Alderney harbour barrage. At 02:10 German vessels engaged enemy motor torpedo boats three nautical miles south of St Helier. Battery 15./1265, Guernsey, and the Alderney Artillery Group engaged hostile small craft west and south of Guernsey and Alderney; Battery 5./1265, Jersey, also fired at a radar-located target. All targets reportedly reversed course after being engaged. At 22:10 Battery Annes, Alderney, engaged six Spitfires. The island supply service was to continue using the shipping space previously allocated. [T-1022/2174, PG 38469, scans 0515, 0520, 0525 and 0551]
At 10:30 fighter-bombers attacked the St Malo harbour area. RO 8 received a bomb hit in a bunker and suffered slight damage.
Source of Information
Roll 2424, PG 38004, scan 0893 (St Malo Naval Command War Diary).