Six weeks after D-Day, the Allies were stuck in Normandy's hedgerows. Operation Cobra changed that — a massive carpet-bombing strike that shattered Panzer Lehr Division, killed America's own Lt. Gen.

From the air, Normandy looked like quiet farmland. On the ground in the summer of 1944, it was a maze of small fields divided by thick hedgerows, sunken lanes, earthen banks, brush, stone, and trees.

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