The Bocage Stalled the Allies - Rhino Tanks Broke It in 6 Days

Описание: July 3, 1944. A Sherman of the 747th Tank Battalion surged up a Norman hedgerow quicker than training allowed, its nose lifting, belly bare. In that instant, a flash, a halt, and a narrow lane choked with smoke.

Across the bocage, logs note tanks pitching skyward, guns mute at the worst moments, radio nets crowded, landmarks swallowed by hedges. Progress thinned into fields and hours while commanders stared at maps and waited.

Settle in for a calm tale.

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Sources:
• Busting the Bocage: American Combined Arms Operations in France, 6 June-31 July 1944 (Leavenworth Paper No. 70) - https://www.armyupress.army.mil/Porta...
• Breakout and Pursuit (United States Army in World War II - The European Theater of Operations) - https://history.army.mil/books/wwii/7...
• Rhino Tanks and the Normandy Hedgerows - https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war...
• Culin hedgerow cutter - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culin_h...
• Operation Cobra - https://www.britannica.com/event/Oper...
• 102nd Cavalry Reconnaissance Squadron (Mechanized) and the Rhino device (overview article) - https://www.nam.ac.uk/explore/rhino-t...