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June 6, 1944: The Battle of the Hedgerows is an infantry war that can be compared in some of its aspects to a jungle war.
The American advance is very slow and very costly in human lives. It sometimes takes several dozen Allied dead to take a meadow or a hedge.
The morale of the American troops is affected in this war of attrition where a hedge taken with difficulty looks terribly like the previous hedge, to the point that the Normandy bocage is nicknamed Hedgerow Hell.
Director: Serge Tignères and Pasquale Pagano