Still Looking for that Bustle in the Hedgerow
It's easy from this angle to understand why the Allied mechanized units couldn't simply roll across the wide expanses of fields in France and on into Germany when you see how each plot of farmland was delineated by dense rows of trees, rocks and shrubbery. Aerial photos would not have told the Allied commanders how these natural fences would slow the tanks and halftracks and provide the Germans perfect fortifications for raining fire down onto the invaders.