Pointe-Du-Hoc

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2 / 4 Show Caption + Hide Caption – POINTE-DU-HOC, FRANCE -- Col (Ret) Keith Nightingale, a former commander of both Ranger and 82nd Airborne battalions, and the 1st Ranger Training Brigade, lectures U.S. Army Reserve Soldiers at the monument atop of Pointe-Du-Hoc overlooking Omaha bea... (Photo Credit: U.S. Army) VIEW ORIGINAL

3 / 4 Show Caption + Hide Caption – POINTE-DU-HOC, FRANCE -- View of barbed wire fences along the top of Pointe-Du-Hoc with the Ranger monument in the background here on June 5. The Rangers scaled the sheer cliffs to take out this German gun turret that watches over the coast. Today th... (Photo Credit: U.S. Army) VIEW ORIGINAL

4 / 4 Show Caption + Hide Caption – POINTE-DU-HOC, FRANCE - The view from inside a German casemate through a barbed-wire fence overlooking of the rocky cliffs beaches of Normandy atop of Pointe-du-Hoc on June 5. On D-day the 2nd Ranger Battalion scaled the sheer cliffs to take out this... (Photo Credit: U.S. Army) VIEW ORIGINAL

Pointe-Du-Hoc

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