VIRTUAL D-DAY | NORMANDY HEDGEROW WALK

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An walk through the terrain that impeded the the US 1st Army's advance during the so-called Battle of the Hedgerows. Filmed near Pont Brocard, the location of fierce fighting between the German forces and the US 2nd Armored Division at the end of July 1944, Patrick demonstrates a cross-section of a typical hedgerow...and walks his dogs, George and Ringo.

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6 дек 2021

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@AhmedAliNizamani 2 года назад

Very Nice 👌 sharing my dear respected friend full support and big likes from Ahmed Ali Nizamani.

@jeffestrada6857 2 года назад

Thanks for the history lesson Regards from Australia 🇦🇺 😉

@godprayer1184 2 года назад

Thank you for tour.

@paulcasey5204 2 года назад

Precious few of these hedges to be seen nowadays unfortunately. I struggle with the generally held view that the allies didnt have a tactic worked out beforehand for dealing with the bocage simply because they were so concerned with the actual landing and had not given much thought to the next stage. Or that they had simply forgotten about the bocage.

@VirtualDDAY 2 года назад

Thanks Paul. The view is that reconnaissance photos of the bocage didn’t show how impenetrable the hedges were, and the local resistance network members were too busy sending the coordinates of German gun batteries and troop movements to the Allies that they overlooked the importance of the terrain.

@paulcasey5204 2 года назад

Yeah, that is the bit that doesnt gel. The Poms had been holidaying in this area forever, especially the upper crust types that tended to make up the officer corps involved in the DDay planning. It beggars belief that somehow they all had a bout of collective amnesia re the bocage. My personal theory is that the bocage was such a specific topography (not confined to Normandy for sure but not really much beyond it either) that training soldiers in how to deal with it would have represented a huge security risk that would have narrowed down the location for the landings too much had the Germans found out about it. I appreciate that postwar it was pretty definitively established that the XX group had collared all the German agents in Britain but in 1944 that would have been far less certain. Anyway, thats just my thought that this non-training was a quite deliberate decision, not an oversight.