Remove the charges

I knew right away that that bridge was gonna be used and they wanted the charge out of the bridge. I guessed that right away - we gotta take the charge out of this bridge, brick arch bridge. About a four foot brick parapet each side. The stream, we estimated the stream about 36 feet wide, and the roadway was about 30 feet wide. It was a fairly wide bridge. It was on a fairly good road running from Amiens to Roy, that was the, it was on the Amiens-Roy road, I remember at the time. And some of the boys discovered a map. We didn’t have a map of that part of the country but some of, one of the boys found a map and we found the name of this here village, found out what this village was. Domart was the name of the village. And after they, after they’s had left, the officers had left, I said, “Alright boys, we’re going to open this here sealed orders and we’ll see just what we have to do.” I gets the boys together and then, “We, I think, I think we better go over the chain of command first fellows, you know who follows me if anything happens to me and I’ll detail the chain of command.” And my orders were very secretly, take the charge out of the bridge, bury it safely in a safe position away from the bridge. Make a thorough examination of the bridge. Find a suitable place to conceal enough material to build a new bridge. And what was the other...oh, a motor dispatch rider will report to you at three o’clock each morning for your report. Have it ready! That was practically all that was asked. My guess is that this isn’t one of our charges, this is French, you see and we’re not very familiar with the French charges. We’ll just have to watch out. What I know about the French is they had, they use a loose explosive, and ammonal and they use boxes, they have it in boxes. It weighs about 15 pounds I understand. And I’m estimating there’s three of these boxes buried right in the roadway on top.