The Allies on D-Day: American, British, Canadian, French and Cows?

Cows?

Not just any cows, but Norman Cows. How did these fine looking brown and white bovines help the Allied war effort on D-Day and the days after in Normandy?

First off, cows are naturally curious and attracted by movement. If they see movement, they think someone is coming to milk them and they keep focused on that person, watching them and waiting. Allied soldiers fighting in the hedgerows of Normandy learned to watch the cows and see if something was attracting their attention. Usually, it was the movement of troops-either ours of theirs. Most of the time-Germans.

Also, Allied soldiers learned that if Norman cattle were out grazing in a field then that field probably was not mined.

Too bad the Norman cows couldn’t fire a gun, they would have been even more valuable to the Allies in the Battle of Normandy in 1944.