29 June 1944
Summary
Coastal battery firing or engagement. Air or sea observations. Shipping and convoy movements
Location Details
Jersey; Guernsey; Alderney; Casquets; Battery Steinbruch
Diary Entry
29-30 June 1944
Numerous destroyers, possible cruisers and motor torpedo boats were radar-located west and north-west of Jersey and around Alderney. At 00:50 the Alderney Artillery Group and 1./gemischte Flak-Abteilung 197 engaged targets six nautical miles south-east of Alderney with two concentrations of fire. Battery Steinbruch, Guernsey, fired at six destroyers south-west of the Casquets and forced them away from the convoy route under smoke. [T-1022/2174, PG 38469, scans 0447-0458]
Source of Information
T-1022 Rolls 2174–2175, Admiral Channel Coast. Source section in Version 1.74.