Originally Posted by
SASless
The great planning somehow overlooked what kind of terrain lay behind the beaches in Normandy and did not appreciate the effect the Hedgerows would provide the defenders.
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I have never quite understood why
that happened..
Anybody familiar with the Normandy bocage (and you'd assume somebody on the staff would have been) would have noticed that there were obvious parallels with the field and especially the lane/road side hedge construction there with the earth/stone lane/roadside banks you see enclosing many of the small fields in areas of the South Hams in the county of Devon in the UK..where it just so happened many US units were accommodated in the run up to D-Day....so you would have hoped somebody would have gone
..as you say it got overlooked..
https://www.devon.gov.uk/historicenv...c-environment/
Hedges in Devon are an important part of the distinctive character of the County with medieval hedges in particular contributing to the irregular and sinuous network of small fields and deep lanes which define the rural landscape.
http://www.totnes-today.co.uk/articl...earchyear=2019