US troops negotiating the narrow sunken lanes of the bocage country in Normandy; summer 1944.
Most fields only had one gated entrance and were surrounded by high hedgerows, which were ideal for German ambushes.

Hedgerow country

Soldiers of the 32nd Infantry Division with the M1 Garand and M1903 Springfield rifles ready to disembark in Australia; 1942. 
   The 32nd was a National Guard unit from Michigan and Wisconsin and would initially fight in New Guinea and later in the Philippines. It spent more days in combat than any other unit.

Newcomers to down under

Infantrymen and a Sherman tank of the U.S. 3rd Army cautiously advance down a walled lane near Metz, north-east France; November 1944, as German troops pull back.