LE BAVENT, FRANCE - JUNE 7: U.S. President Joe Biden arrives to deliver a speech at Pointe du Hoc, where U.S. Army Rangers scaled cliffs over 100 feet high on D-Day to destroy a heavily fortified ...

The views expressed by then–President Ronald Reagan at Pointe du Hoc in 1984 would likely put him out of step with the modern Republican Party, which under Donald Trump’s leadership has become ...

Forty years after former President Ronald Reagan spoke at the Pointe du Hoc memorial, President Joe Biden echoed similar sentiments that praised the troops on their bravery 80 years ago and ...

President Ronald Reagan gave a speech on June 6, 1984, the 40th Anniversary of D-Day, at Pointe du Hoc in Normandy, France. Dozens of Rangers were in attendance.

Friends of Ronald Reagan gathered to mark the 40th anniversary of his speeches at Normandy (June 6, 1984), and the 20th anniversary of his death (June 5, 2004).

Reagan gave his famous address about “the boys of Pointe du Hoc” in 1984 after three years of struggle to restore American power after the Soviet advances of the 1970s.

Over 200 U.S. Army Rangers scaled the cliffs of Pointe du Hoc on D-Day to destroy German long-range guns stationed at the top. Less than half remained standing after two days of fighting.