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U.S. 705th Ordnance soldiers use scrap metal from beach obstacles to construct hedgerow cutters.
View of beach obstacles which were used to block Allied landing forces on the beaches of France. United States 705th Ordnance soldiers use welding torches to cut up beach obstacles for use as hedgerow cutters. Welders attach hedgerow cutters on M5A1 light tanks. Tank is about to be tested. The hedgerow cutter design came from Sergeant Curtis G. Culin, of the 102nd Reconnaissance Squadron. (World War II period).
United States military tank M5A1 driven into heavy hedgerow with a Culin hedgerow cutter attached (WWII)
United States soldiers fix hedgerow cutters in France during World War II. The military tank M5A1 is driven into heavy hedgerow. United States Ord soldiers fix the hedgerow cutters on tank M5A1. Soldiers climb up M5A1 tank and it is driven away. The hedgerow cutters were fashioned using metal beach blockades set up by the Germans in Normandy.