 On the eastern @-@ most beach , Fox Green , elements of five different companies had become entangled , and the situation was little improved by the equally disorganized landings of the second wave . Two more companies of the 3rd Battalion joined the melee , and , having drifted east in the first wave , I / 16 finally made their traumatic landing on Fox Green , at 08 : 00 . Two of their six boats were swamped on their detour to the east , and as they came in under fire , three of the four remaining boats were damaged by artillery or mines , and the fourth was hung up on an obstacle . A captain from this company found himself senior officer , and in charge of the badly out of shape 3rd Battalion . 
