On the morning of D-Day 6 June 1944 a crack unit of US 2nd Ranger Battalion scaled the 90-foot cliffs at Pointe du Hoc under relentless enemy fire, somehow managing to disable the German guns trained directly onto the landing beaches below.
On the morning of D-Day 6 June 1944 a crack unit of US 2nd Ranger Battalion scaled the 90-foot cliffs at Pointe du Hoc under relentless enemy fire, somehow managing to disable the German guns trained directly onto the landing beaches below.