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up late on D-Day and it was in this same quarry where General Gerhard found the dog
which he still has and to this day calls D-Day. As they walked down past the quarry
they saw some caves on the right and it was there that they flushed out the five
prisoners. There was caves all along this area and this all took place at noon on
D-Day according to Shay. To the left there were mine fields posted and fenced with
the usual German mine sign "actom [?]" One could never tell whether it was mined
or not. Ahead of them they could see obstacles crossing the road. There seemed to
be a concrete [*?*] placement on the left with a couple of guns pointing up towards
the beach. Then there was a hundred feet by hundred feet mine fields smack in the
center of the road on the right of the that is the opening of the draw. On its
right there was barbed wire running all the way from the [?] on the road, swinging
around at the opening to the beach and down along in front of the promenade, and
the concrete seawall which according to Shay’s map as is shown it ’s eight to ten
feet high and at an 45° angle. At noon that time Shay saw a burning tank off to
the right on the beach, foxholes near it, anti-tank wall set out before the mine
field at the entrance to the Vierville draw and that covers his rough description.
The remainder of the story is told in Coitas Ensfield.

Here's another description of a Shay drawing and it's dated o855 hours and the 5th
of June, '44 and it's a drawing of Dough White on Omaha Beach. Shay has recorded
the following: In the center of his drawing at the very bottom where the beach is
he has an LCIL Number 84 which is on fire. To its left is an LCVP hung up on
obstacles. Then ahead of them is the seawall and various obstacles and projections.
Behind it is a promenade and above that is bank. Then there is a double apron of
wire strung in the field behind. was from the left
close to where the LCVP was hung up by obstacles. Down the beach for a little ways
then up over the promenade and the seawall over the wire and across the field, rather