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 ...

Four decades after D-Day, U.S. President Ronald Reagan visited Pointe du Hoc and paid his respects to the 62 surviving members of the 2nd Rangers who had climbed the cliffs. He honored them ...

To honor the occasion more broadly, Reagan chose to focus on “the boys of Pointe du Hoc,” choosing the ... It fell to the 225 soldiers of the 2nd Ranger Battalion, 62 of whom were in ...