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It’s reminiscent of Churchill and the tank, and the GI who suggested during the Normandy invasion that the put dozer blades on tanks to deal with the hedgerows.

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GI who suggested during the Normandy invasion that the put dozer blades on tanks to deal with the hedgerows.

That would be the Second Armored Division's Sgt. Curtis Grubb Culin, III, from New Jersey.

He got the Legion of Merit for the *Culin Hedgerow device*- not exactly a dozer blade- and lost a leg to a boobytrapped mine about four months after the Normandy landing. After the war, he went to work for Western Electric/ Bell Laboratories, where for a short period, my granddad was his supervisor.