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Aviation accidents and incidents in the Channel Islands in the 1940s; German Fortifications in Jersey; Fort Hommet 10.5 cm Coastal Defence Gun Casement Bunker; Henri Gonay, Belgian airman killed in Jersey, 1944; Military history of France during World War II; Neuengamme concentration camp subcamp list; Sark during the German occupation of the ...
The fictional island of St Gregory serves as a stand-in for the real-life islands of Guernsey and Jersey, and the story is compiled from the events on both islands. Produced by Granada Television in Manchester , [ 1 ] Island at War had an estimated budget of £9 million and was filmed on location in the Isle of Man from August 2003 to October 2003.
The Channel Islands, comprising the Bailiwick of Jersey and Bailiwick of Guernsey, which also comprised Alderney and Sark, fell under German control on 30 June 1940.. Prior to this, the lightning Blitzkrieg resulting in the fall of France gave the British government and the island governments just enough time to evacuate those who were willing to leave the islands immediately.
Everyone fleeing the islands left behind friends and relatives. With the islands under German occupation, communications were severed. In 1941, negotiations allowed the International Red Cross message system, which was designed primarily for use by captured soldiers, to include civilians in the Channel Islands. In May 1941, the first 7,000 ...
Sometimes there was a three-way trade with ships returning to the Channel Islands where the ship chandlers and merchants benefited. [1]: 254 The American war of independence saw the Guernsey fishing colony fade away as more profitable opportunities opened up, privateering. Jersey continued with the cod trade, in 1840 the Chamber of Commerce ...
World War II sites in the Channel Islands (1 C, 11 P) Pages in category "Military history of the Channel Islands during World War II" The following 31 pages are in this category, out of 31 total.
Between 1940 and 1945, the Channel Islands were the only British territory to come under Nazi occupation. On these islands were entrenched almost 40,000 German soldiers, sailors and airmen, behind fortifications that had consumed more than 10% of the concrete used in the Atlantic Wall which stretched from Norway to the Pyrenees.
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 ...