8 August 1944

8-10 August 1944

Alderney and the Channel Islands command reported repeated movements of destroyers, landing ships, transports and escorts around Cherbourg, Alderney, Guernsey and Jersey. On 8/9 August German convoy and escort vessels fought four enemy motor torpedo boats in dense fog. A subsequent search north and south of Jersey for enemy survivors produced no result. [T-1022/2175, scans 0080-0095]

St Malo reported continued bombardment and close fighting. The Fortress Commandant requested that the hospital ship Vorderau, with a doctor, be sent from Jersey to St Malo to receive approximately 500 wounded. Naval personnel still at the front were ordered to remain in action, while harbour demolitions and the destruction of equipment that could not be evacuated continued.

The surviving Roll 4009 sequence ends with operational maps showing the changing front on 8 and 9 August and a forwarding sheet for the Marinegruppenkommando West war diary. No separate narrative entry for 9 August survives in this section beyond the accompanying situation maps.

Roll 4009, PG 37597, scans 0156–0163.