8 August 1942 Part 2

8 August 1942 Channel Islands Sea Defence diary

Weather: wind from 180°, 2 metres per second. No special occurrences.

Construction, Naval Artillery Battalion 604 — Batterie Mirus. No. 1 gun: no material changes. No. 2: camouflage of accommodation bunkers continued; drainage for rainwater carried out. No. 3: electrical installation in turret completed; machinery work continued, as did building at the access ways and ammunition bunkers. No. 4: outer surrounding wall completed; concreting of accommodation bunkers and turret cabling continued. Fire-control post: armoured cupolas and rangefinder installed.

A further 423 shells and associated cartridge charges were delivered, bringing the total at the guns and within the battery site to 1,000 shells with corresponding charges. Batterie Strassburg: no changes. Batterie Steinbruch: work progressing.

Naval Artillery Battalion 605 — Batterie West. Fire-control post: excavation continued. Turret 1: further shuttering of circular platform and reinforcement begun. Turret 2: work not continued; accommodation barrack completed and occupied. Turret 3: no further work on the gun; excavation continued for accommodation bunker and barrack. Turret 4: reinforcement continued and pouring began; accommodation-bunker excavation. Machinery bunker: excavation continued. Excavation for an ammunition replenishment bunker completed.

T-1022 Roll 2422, PG 37996, scan 0481–0482.