President Reagan addresses the surviving U.S. Army veterans of the assault against Pointe du Hoc on June 6th, 1984 in Normandy, France. The assault on Pointe du Hoc was a key battle of the D-Day ...

The Allied effort to free Western Europe from Nazi subjugation began on the beaches of Normandy ... Pointe du Hoc,” choosing the “lonely windswept point on the northern shores of France ...

In 1984, on the 40th anniversary of the invasion of Normandy, Ronald Reagan spoke at Pointe du Hoc, to commemorate the greatest war operation America has undertaken, and to explain its importance ...

World War II's successful Operation Overlord took place on the coast of France. Although there were ... in Colleville-sur-Mer and the Pointe-du-Hoc bomb craters are also especially moving.