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re: A seriously underrated aspect of D-Day and the Allied offensive in France
Posted on 6/6/19 at 4:02 pm to Blizzard of Chizz
Posted on 6/6/19 at 4:02 pm to Blizzard of Chizz
I am well aware of that. I just don’t know how we didn’t prepare or at least know about the scale of the hedgerows.
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Posted on 6/6/19 at 4:06 pm to jimbeam
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It wasn’t just a matter of them being tall. Those hedgerows had been there hundreds of years. They were extremely dense and impossible to penetrate. It wasn’t until a soldier who was a farmer back home had the bright idea to weld pieces of scrap iron to a tank and essentially turn it into a bush hog that the allies were able to break out of the hedgerows.
Good points. Some even dated back to the days of the Romans where they started as mounds of dirt.
Posted on 6/6/19 at 4:10 pm to jimbeam
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I just don’t know how we didn’t prepare or at least know about the scale of the hedgerows.
It was just an overlooked detail that became a huge problem once we were there on the ground. I’m sure we just assumed they wouldn’t be hard to penetrate. The planners probably figured that conventional explosives would be sufficient enough to clear them as obstacles. Again though, the problem lied in the fact that they were hundreds of years old and incredibly dense. Explosives simply didn’t have an effect on them.
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