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How a field modification broke the Normandy deadlock
After D-Day, Allied armor became trapped by Normandy’s dense hedgerows, terrain that favored German defenders and neutralized tanks. An American sergeant proposed a simple solution: cutting steel from ...
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How the Allies solved the Normandy hedgerow crisis
After the D-Day landings, Allied forces discovered that Normandy’s dense hedgerows turned every field into a deadly trap. Tanks were forced into narrow lanes, vulnerable to ambush at point-blank range ...
Here's What You Need To Remember: Eisenhower was so furious that he declared he would never employ strategic bombers on tactical targets again. But the German troops suffered even worse from the ...
COLLEVILLE-SUR-MER, France (AP) — When the sun rises over Omaha Beach, revealing vast stretches of wet sand extending toward distant cliffs, one starts to grasp the immensity of the task faced by ...
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