More than 200 Rangers fought vertically – up the sheer cliff face of Pointe du Hoc, a craggy outcropping ... a core component of the modern U.S. Army's culture and evolution in the decades ...

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 ...

Pp. xiv, 306. Illus., maps, notes, biblio., index. $15.99 paper. ISBN: 0306822644 A very readable, vivid, and often insightful look at the Rangers who stormed Pointe du Hoc on D-Day. O’Donnell, author ...

President Reagan addresses the surviving U.S. Army veterans of the assault against Pointe du Hoc on June 6th, 1984 in Normandy, France. The assault on Pointe du Hoc was a key battle of the D-Day ...