The observation post at Pointe du Hoc, where the Ranger memorial is located, sits very near the edge of the cliff and was closed to the public in 2001 because of safety concerns, according to ...

U.S. Army Rangers returned to the site of one of their most storied battles on Wednesday to commemorate the 75th Anniversary of D-Day and scaled the same Normandy cliffs their forebears climbed on ...

Excerpted from President Ronald Reagan’s 1984 speech on the 40th anniversary of D-Day, delivered at the site of crucial combat before some of the surviving veterans who fought in it.

In a speech at Point du Hoc in Normandy, France, President Biden pays tribute to the rangers who scaled the 100-foot cliff overlooking Omaha Beach on D-Day 1944.

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.

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.

Thomas Christianson talked about the U.S. Army Ranger's landing at Pointe Du Hoc on D-Day. Lieutenant Colonel Christianson (Retired) told the story of "Rudder's Rangers," a battalion under the ...

Pointe du Hoc is located on the sheer cliffs between Omaha and Utah beaches. Before D-Day, the Nazis were believed to have stationed artillery there, which would have allowed them to shell ...

POINTE DU HOC, FRANCE06.05.2019 - U.S. Soldiers with 75th Ranger Regiment scale the cliffs like Rangers did during Operation Overlord 75 years ago at Omaha Beach, Pointe du Hoc, Normandy, France, June ...

On June 6, 1944, Pointe du Hoc had to be taken, and it then had to be held — denied to German counter-attackers — until relief forces arrived. The seize, destroy and hold mission demanded soldiers ...

POINTE DU HOC, France — Of all the Allied attacks on D-Day, the Rangers’ cliff-climbing heroics to take the high ground between the two American landing beaches were the most dangerous.