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Graye-sur Mer was in Mike sector of Juno beach. Defences on this sector were formidable with an extensive amount of barbed wire and mines. The proposed exit from the beach ran through marshy ground which had been flooded by damming the stream which flowed through it. The exit road crossed the stream at a small culvert which had been heavily cratered forming a 63ft gap. A large tank trap, 16 ft wide and 9 ft deep, had been dug in the centre of the exit (...) Not realising the size of the culvert crater Captain Hewitt ordered up a fascine tank to fill it (...) (The driver, George Dunn) stopped the tracks but the tank fell, the daylight through the visor was cut off and the vehicle stopped. Water poured on top of him but somebody pulled him out and laid him on the turret which was only just above the water (...) A bridge was laid to rest on the tank and more fascines dumped into the water ahead (...) Six tanks had crossed the bridge when it started to slide off the sunken AVRE. Traffic was then stopped whilst the bridge was secured. Four more tanks got across until a Sherman became bogged.