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  • From: lbsaltzman@aol.com
  • To: permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [permaculture] Hedge Ideas, strategic
  • Date: Tue, 12 May 2009 19:14:43 -0400

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.






-----Original Message-----
From: Food Forests <foodforests@mac.com>
To: permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org
Sent: Tue, 12 May 2009 3:28 pm
Subject: Re: [permaculture] Hedge Ideas, strategic




"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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