Bocage
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Bocage is a terrain of mixed woodland and pasture characteristic of parts of northern France, southern England, Ireland, the Netherlands, Portugal, northern Spain and northern Germany, in regions wher
Bocage near Boulogne-sur-Mer, France
Chelsea porcelain factory candle-holder with bocage background, c. 1765
Bocage country on the Cotentin Peninsula, Lower Normandy
English bocage (Edale valley, Peak District)
Rhino tank
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"Rhino tank" was the American nickname for Allied tanks fitted with "tusks", or bocage cutting devices, during World War II. The British designation for the modifications was prongs.
Bocage
…barriers up to 16 feet (4.9 m) high. A typical square mile on the battlefield might contain hundreds of irregular hedged enclosures. In response, "Rhino tanks" fitted with bocage-cutting modifications were developed. American personnel usually referred to bocages as hedgerows. The German army also used sunken…
An M4A1 (76) W-based United States Rhino tank crashes through a hedgerow.
A M5 Stuart light tank, fitted with a Culin-style "cutter"
An American M4 Sherman tank with hedgerow breaching modifications