Lieutenant Hanley's instructions to Sergeant Saunders were once they arrived at this town they were to take up a position inside of a building and then they were to remain quiet. To the Germans the town was to appear dead. He told Saunders to keep the men away from windows. However they did just the opposite sometime having two or three men looking out of a window.
Saunders should not have and would not have allowed Braddock to carry a live chicken on a mission in which maintaining silence and remaining undetected was of such high importance.