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Army Ordnance’s Garden Forks Break Hedge Obstacles
Brig. Gen. Geo. A. G. Gildespie notes Army ordnance used improvised tank dozers and welded steel prongs on tank fronts to uproot hedgerows in Normandy. By D-Day engineers and ordnance crews created 110 garden fork devices for heavy tanks and 364 for medium tanks, largely from salvaged beach defense beams, enabling faster advance for armored columns and infantry.
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