A YANK MAGAZINE article that reported on the battle of the hedgerows as fought by the men of the 82nd Airborne Division:
“They all had been fighting since D-Day. Compared with the obstacles at the beginning of their drive, the hill they had just taken was only a minor deal, but it was no push-over. “At some places,” one paratrooper told me, “the fighting was so close the Krauts didn’t even bother to throw their grenades, they just handed them over to us.”
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