President Joe Biden singled out and praised a former U.S. Army Ranger during a speech Friday highlighting threats to democracy at the Pointe du Hoc Ranger Monument. “John, we love you ...
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 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 ...
Un pêcheur à pied en difficulté a été sauvé au niveau de Cricqueville-en-Bessin, dans le Calvados, jeudi 30 janvier.
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 ...