The Channel Islands. Report by the JIC.

Implications. 7. The Germans must appreciate that one of the most suitable places for a British landing in France is the Cherbourg Peninsula. The retention of the Islands by the Germans would prevent us establishing a bridgehead on the West Coast of the Cherbourg Peninsula, and would prevent their use as advanced landing grounds to provide fighter cover for an attempt at establishing a bridgehead on the east coast of the peninsula. 8. Once we had established bridgeheads and gained control of aerodromes on the Peninsula, the retention by the Germans of the aerodromes on the Islands tends to lose its importance.