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On 2 June 1941 Adolf Hitler asked for maps of the Channel Islands; these were provided the next day. By 13 June Hitler had made a decision. He ordered additional men to the Islands and, having decided the defences were inadequate, lacking tanks and coastal artillery, he instructed the Organisation Todt (OT) to undertake the building of 200-250 strongpoints in each of the larger islands.
Protest, Defiance and Resistance in the Channel Islands: German Occupation, 1940–45. London: Bloomsbury. ISBN 147250920X; Cruickshank, Charles G. (1975), The German Occupation of the Channel Islands, The Guernsey Press, ISBN 0-902550-02-0; Dunford-Slater, John (1953). Commando: Memoirs of a Fighting Commando in World War Two. Reprinted 2002 ...
It supplied more than 119,000 standard food parcels during the first visit and continued to visit the islands through the occupation by German forces and after liberation in May 1945.
Channel Islands Liberated- the End of German Occupation, Channel Islands, 1945 D24595. Receiving a message from the Germans agreeing to a meeting at midnight on 8–9 May, the ships returned to the same south west coast location off Guernsey and a German minesweeper M4613 came out to meet HMS Bulldog. The German second in command, Generalmajor ...
The German Occupation of Guernsey began on 30 June 1940, a few weeks before he turned 16. In December 1944, as the island waited for the International Red Cross ship, he wrote in the letter to his ...
The island of Sark forms part of the Bailiwick of Guernsey which with the Bailiwick of Jersey form the Channel Islands. Offered the opportunity to evacuate the island in June 1940, most locally born islanders decided to stay.
A Guernsey woman serving as a Wren in World War Two unknowingly intercepted messages from her home island. Barbara Quevâtre was 14 when she was evacuated from Guernsey ahead of its occupation by ...
The island of Guernsey and the other island in the Channel Islands represent the last remnants of the medieval Duchy of Normandy. [8] In the islands, Elizabeth II's traditional title as head of state was Duke of Normandy. [9] (The masculine nomenclature "Duke" is retained even when the monarch is female.)