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26 October 1943
Summary
Coastal battery firing or engagement. Training or inspection. Weather report
Location Details
Jersey; Battery Lothringen
Diary Entry
26 October 1943 Channel Islands Sea Defence diary
Weather: wind 315°, 4 m/sec. From 18:25 to 18:40, Army Coastal Battery 470, Jersey, conducted practice firing. From 19:41 to 20:02 Batterie Lothringen conducted practice firing at a towed target with illumination shells. Ammunition expenditure: Army Coastal Battery 470, thirty 22-cm rounds; Batterie Lothringen, thirty-two 15-cm rounds and fifteen 15-cm illumination shells. No objections were raised.
Source of Information
T-1022 Roll 2422, scans 0713.
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