Military History not Visualized

Just burn down the Hedgerows in Normandy? (2019x39)

Exibido em:: Jun 26, 2019

So, on my Hedgerow Tactics video, some people asked, why the US did not just use flamethrowers to burn down the hedgerows. So, I found no direct note of this in the books and articles I read, but there are a lot of reasons why this likely would not have worked, although it sounds like a feasible idea at first. »» SUPPORT MHV «« » paypal donation - https://paypal.me/mhvis » patreon - https://www.patreon.com/mhv » subscribe star - https://www.subscribestar.com/mhv » Book Wishlist https://www.amazon.de/gp/registry/wishlist/3LJIXNJIUXJES/ref=cm_wl_huc_view?language=en_GB »» MERCHANDISE «« » teespring - https://teespring.com/stores/military-history-visualized » SOURCES « Doubler, Michael D.: Busting the Bocage: American Combined Arms Operations in France, 6 June-31 July 1944. Combat Studies Institute: U.S. Army Command and General Staff College Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. Combat Lessons: Number 4. U. S. Government Printing Office, 1944. Lieb, Peter: Unternehmen Overlord. Die Invasion in der Normandie und die Befreiung Westeuropas. C.H. Beck: München, 2014. Kruse, Kurt: Artilleristischer Ratgeber auf dem Gefechtsfeld. 8. neubearbeitete Auflage. Barbara-Verlag Hugo Weiler, München, 1942. Citino, Robert M.: The Wehrmacht Retreats: Fighting a Lost War, 1943. University Press Kansas, USA, 2012. Cambridge History of the Second World War. Volume I: Fighting the War. Cambridge University Press: UK, 2015. Horst Boog, Gerhard Krebs, Detlef Vogel: Das Deutsche Reich und der Zweite Weltkrieg. Band 7. Das Deutsche Reich in der Defensive – Strategischer Luftkrieg in Europa, Krieg im Westen und in Ostasien 1943 bis 1944/45, Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart 2001. Germany and the Second World War. Volume 7. The Strategic Air War in Europe and the War in the West and East Asia 1943–1944/5. 2006. Fennell, Jonathan: Fighting the People’s War. The British and Commonwealth Armies and the Second World War. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, UK,