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Pointe du Hoc: The Cliff the Rangers Climbed on D-Day

On the morning of 6 June 1944, 225 U.S. Rangers climbed a 30-metre cliff in Normandy under fire to capture a German gun battery. The guns were not in their casemates. Today the cratered headland is a memorial site, and a restoration project is under way to protect it from erosion.