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Photographer: Don Morfe
Taken: June 29, 2008
Caption: Hedgerows in Saint Lo.
Additional Description: After D-Day, June 6, 1944, fierce battles were fought throughout the hedgerows of Normandy. The largest battle was around the town of St. Lo, which was almost totally destroyed. Hedgerows are small fields ringed by earthen banks of dirt and roots four to six feet high, with trees and shrubs growing tight enough to serve as fences that cattle and other farm animals could not get through. They served to hide soldiers and equipment for a later ambush.
Submitted: January 7, 2016, by Don Morfe of Baltimore, Maryland.
Database Locator Identification Number: p343631
File Size: 2.883 Megabytes

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