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.
An M4A1 (76) W-based United States Rhino tank crashes through a hedgerow.
An example of bocage landscape
A M5 Stuart light tank, fitted with a Culin-style "cutter"
An American M4 Sherman tank with hedgerow breaching modifications
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
Rhino tank
…Rhino tank" (initially called "Rhinoceros") 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. In the summer of 1944, during the Battle of Normandy…
Bocage near Boulogne-sur-Mer, France
Chelsea porcelain factory candle-holder with bocage background, c. 1765
English bocage (Edale valley, Peak District)