D-Day. At Pointe du Hoc the Rangers need to scale the cliffs and capture or disable the guns. Aside from the forces that are ...

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 ...

Pointe du Hoc was a stronghold of Hitler’s Atlantic ... It fell to the 225 soldiers of the 2nd Ranger Battalion, 62 of whom were in the audience for the speech, to take the cliff — one of ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: Approximately 225 Rangers landed at Pointe du Hoc on June 6. By the next day, only 90 were fit to fight. June 6, 1944. Allied ...