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About 3000 yards north of our drop zone is a very big building which looks like a hangar.
Its about 150 yards long and will be a good landmark.
Note:
This was the balloon hangar near the 3d battalion command post on the way to La Ham and
Montebourg station.
About 4000 yards northeast of our drop zone is the chateau with rows of large trees. These
threes are the tallest in the vicinity. We want you to remember all these landmarks instead
of all the small roads in and around the drop zone because when you land on the drop zone you
will easily orient yourself anyway.

As you see on the maps the area is very flat and without any big woods but it has very thick
hedges which are very good cover. Few fields will be over a hundred yards long. Now concern-
ing the enemy:
In all France he has about 55 divisions. Some of these are standing and stationed along
the coastlines and occupy the big defenses called the west wall. This is a line of strong
points, barbed wire, batteries, obstacles, etc. which is along the entire coast. We know the
coast is heavily fortified but the Army and Navy and Air Force can break it. We will have the enemy outnumbered and out-equipped in the invasion area. Through the inland off France other
divisions are stationed as mobile divisions in reserve positions. On the Cherbourg peninsula
there is now a total of about 5 divisions or sixty thousand men. Of these we will be concerned
with the following:
The 709th Infantry Division is static and with Georgian troops, defends the coastline
on the north and west. The 91st Infantry Division has recently moved up into the western
half of the peninsula with a probable divisional headquarters at Briquebec. The 243rd In-
fantry Division now occupies the eastern half of the peninsula and our regimental area.
Headquarters of this division is possible in Ste. Mere Eglise.
The 91st Division has about 9,000 men and has one battalion of tanks and some motorized
artillery attached. We know that you're very interested in tanks, and we can say that we
have seen no kind of tanks in our area. We know that about one company of tanks debarked
in Carentan where we've seen tanks on photos of St...which were taken out of St.Sauveur le