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.

Looking out for ambush

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

US Infantry squad advances past a dead German Nazi after taking Cherbourg, France;  June 1944.