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 ...

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 ...

To the D-Day speech at Pointe du Hoc. There’s something I always want to say about it. The speech was a plain-faced one. It was about what it was about, the valor shown 40 years before by the ...

Mais les projets de l'ampleur de la pointe du Hoc sont rares. En France, les derniers remontaient aux années 80. "Il y a eu Biarritz (7400 m3 de béton, 150 tonnes dacier) et dans une moindre ...

The assault on Pointe du Hoc was a key battle of the D-Day invasion. Image: National Archives President Reagan addresses the surviving U.S. Army veterans of the assault against Pointe du Hoc on ...

Describe the "moving movement" for President Reagan during his Pointe du Hoc speech that Peggy Noonan highlighted. Explain the response and reaction of President Reagan as Peggy Noonan described.

The Du Hoc was designed by Austin McGlaun, who served with the 101st Airborne Division in Iraq and named it after his uncle’s D-Day landing at Pointe du Hoc, part of the critical Normandy ...

To honor the occasion more broadly, Reagan chose to focus on “the boys of Pointe du Hoc,” choosing the “lonely windswept point on the northern shores of France” as both the setting and the ...