Channel Islands Flak Brigade
The Channel Islands Flak Brigade was a brigade-strength combat unit of the Luftwaffe during World War II . The establishment of the brigade staff took place on October 25, 1941 in the area of activity of the field air district command of western France. The sole commanding officer was Colonel Adolf Gerlach . The brigade was tactically subordinate to the 9th Flak Division with a command post on the Channel Island of Guernsey . She was responsible for the operational management of the flak forces on the three occupied Channel Islands of Guernsey, Jersey and Alderney .
On January 19, 1942, the Flak Brigade was given a new name and was henceforth managed under the 8th Flak Brigade .
Individual evidence
- ^ Karl-Heinz Hummel: The German flak cartillery 1935-1945. Your major formations and regiments . VDM, Zweibrücken 2010, ISBN 978-3-86619-048-1 , p. 168 .