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re: A seriously underrated aspect of D-Day and the Allied offensive in France

Posted on 6/6/19 at 4:06 pm to
Posted by parrotdr
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Posted on 6/6/19 at 4:06 pm to
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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.
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