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Vicomte.

The nearest large group of tanks to our areas is the regiment at Laval — from which it would take at least 14 hours to attack us. However, they will hesitate to commit large units until
they know the exact invasion picture. Also, with our weapons and the terrain favoring our
type of action we need have no undue fear of tanks.

I said before the coast was heavily defended. Therefore, if you feel that you’ve been dropped east of the big asphalt highway, don’t go east. If you do, you'll get into every type of
defense of installation known. But if you start west and come to a town, don’t enter going
in that direction; the towns are heavily defended on the east side towards the beaches from
which side an attack is naturally expected.

We've shown you all the defenses we know about on the defense map. Some of those have been
put in in the last few days so we know that they...that they are building more and more. You
see that on some...machine gun points that these may be pillboxes. We want to stress to you
that even when you don’t see any defenses be careful of crossroads and bridges because the
enemy is as logical in its building of defenses at those spots as we are. Another thing is
to be careful of is the hedges. As you see in the photos they are good for cover and conceal-
ment, therefore we don’t know what is in them but be careful when you as an individual soldier
or part of a small group advance through the hedgerows.

We don’t think that in our immediate area are many enemy troops, we estimate about two
companies. So if we assemble swiftly, seize our objective and the seaborne forces come in
to contact us on the afternoon of D-Day as schedule it will be quite an easy job; and we will
have time to taste the apple cider we know they are making a lot of on the Cherbourg peninsula.

For them the enemy will not have had time to move his troops from the north, from where
can expect a counter attack as we are the northern most American First Army flank.
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Once more we tell you to remember the landmarks because even if you are dropped far from the