How One “Mad” Mechanic Turned a Broken Tank Into a Battlefield Legend

June 1944. The Allied advance in Normandy met an unexpected enemy — not German fire, but nature itself.
The French countryside was divided by massive hedgerows, thick walls of earth and vegetation that turned every field into a fortress. Allied tanks couldn’t push through without exposing themselves to deadly ambushes.

Then came an idea from an unlikely source. Sergeant Curtis Culin, a mechanic from New Jersey, proposed a simple but revolutionary fix: weld heavy steel prongs to the front of Sherman tanks, allowing them to slice cleanly through the hedgerows instead of trying to climb over them.

Few believed it would work — until Culin built a prototype in just two days using scrap metal from destroyed German roadblocks. When it worked flawlessly, the results spread like wildfire.

General Eisenhower ordered the design adopted across the front, and soon more than 5,000 “Culin cutters” were mounted on Allied tanks rolling through France.

This simple, improvised invention helped restore momentum to the Allied advance — a small act of ingenuity that quietly changed the course of the war.

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