[permaculture] Hedge Ideas, strategic

lbsaltzman at aol.com lbsaltzman at aol.com
Tue May 12 19:14:43 EDT 2009


American troops finally started welding pointed, v-shaped?battering rams onto the front of tanks. Only then could the penetrate these incredible hedges.? It was tragic that they had to do this to these magnificent hedges, but it shows how impenetrable they were. Even a powerful tank couldn't penetrate them until it was modified.? They nearly stopped the invasion cold. 






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From: Food Forests <foodforests at mac.com>
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"Normandy was the scene of furious fightings for several weeks after June 6, 
1944. After the battle of the beaches came what historians now commonly call the 
"hedgerows war" in reference to the nature of the land. The hedgerows, also 
known as the "battle of the bocage", began the day after D-Day and was over at 
the end of August 1944, when allied troops eventually released the biggest part 
of the current Basse-Normandie region. 

This study of the hedgerows war in Normandy showed the characteristic of combat 
in the hedgerows and the ascendancy of the defense tactics on the attack."

http://www.dday-overlord.com/eng/bocage_war.htm

-ff


      
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