Photograph of Hedgerow Fighting After D-Day.

With smoke from gunfire clouding the air, GI’s engage the enemy among the hedgerows of Normandy after D-Day. The soldier with his M1 Garand to his shoulder is preparing to fire a rifle grenade over the tall growth. Norman farmers used the massive earthen mounds and plantings to separate many of the fields and pastures of the Cotentin peninsula. The Germans used the defensive characteristics of the hedgerows to their advantage time-and-time again during the fighting in Normandy.

Photograph credit: U.S. Army Signal Corps.                                                                 

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