President Joe Biden singled out and praised a former U.S. Army Ranger during a speech Friday highlighting threats to democracy at the Pointe du Hoc Ranger Monument. “John, we love you ...

D-DAY AT POINTE-DU-HOC tells the remarkable story of the U.S. Army’s 2nd Ranger battalion. Led by Lt. Col. James Earl Rudder, the soldiers scaled the 100-foot cliffs of Pointe-du-Hoc in Normandy ...

To honor the occasion more broadly, Reagan chose to focus on “the boys of Pointe du Hoc,” choosing the “lonely windswept point on the northern shores of France” as both the setting and the ...

There's also a memorial that gives a narrative of the ... The American Cemetery in Colleville-sur-Mer and the Pointe-du-Hoc bomb craters are also especially moving. If you'd rather let someone ...

Scaling the wall The cliffs at Pointe du Hoc, towering in places more than ... of local sculptor Jim Brothers’ National D-Day monument at Bedford, Va., depicts the 2nd Rangers’ amazing feat.

The assault on Pointe du Hoc was a key battle of the D-Day invasion. Image: National Archives President Reagan addresses the surviving U.S. Army veterans of the assault against Pointe du Hoc on ...

Mr Scott, Jonny Cracknell, also from Norwich, and Chris Marsh, from Southampton, plan to start their run from Pointe du Hoc Monument and run alongside Omaha, Juno, Sword and Gold beaches.