Led by Lt. Col. James Earl Rudder, the soldiers scaled the 100-foot cliffs of Pointe-du-Hoc in Normandy on June 6, 1944. Featuring interviews with surviving veterans from the Pointe-Du-Hoc assault ...

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 ...

Forty years later, Ronald Reagan became the first president to speak at Normandy ... boys of Pointe du Hoc,” choosing the “lonely windswept point on the northern shores of France” as ...

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 ...

Scaling the wall The cliffs at Pointe du Hoc, towering in places more than ... the code name for the Allied invasion at the Normandy coast in France during World War II. Stivison and other Rangers ...

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

President Joe Biden, in France to commemorate the ... At the cliffs of Pointe du Hoc, Biden said the troops who stormed Normandy decided to believe in something bigger than themselves, and that ...