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

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I just don’t know how we didn’t prepare or at least know about the scale of the hedgerows.

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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.