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Rangers at Pointe du Hoc

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The Rangers climb the cliff

The Pointe du Hoc is a major historical site for the one of the battles that were undertaken by the U .S rangers . It was one of the epic allied landings which happened on the Normandy Coast with an aim to liberate France and the whole of Western Europe from the German conquest . The U .S army Second Ranger Battalion exhibited a particular heroism commanded by Lt . Colonel James E . Rudder

p On the D-Day of the battle which was on 6th June 1944 , the American Rangers landed at the foot of the cliffs of Pointe du Hoc . The cliff eighty to one hundred feet high , was one of the challenges that the army had to go through to defeat their German enemies . The cliff is almost vertical and it provides a very commanding view of the Channel that could be used for observation and setting of the gun crews (Keegan 1994 . The Germans had built the Atlantic wall and reinforced the wall with six concrete emplacements which were then equipped with French 155mm guns which had been captured from the French forces . Before the allied forces decided to attack the area the guns had been detected and a heavy attack carried out but the guns had remained intact . There had to be a major operation that would lead to guns . However , the Germans learned of...

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