Pointe du Hoc is one of the D-Day Landings points along the Normandy coast on the 6th of June 1944. The US Second Ranger Battalion were dropped here at 5.30 am. Their mission was to scale the 30 meters high cliffs in the dark and attack the German coastal defence guns and to destroy them.
A German bunker
Pointe du Hoc is now an open air museum in memory of the D-Day Landings. This 13 hectares site has been ceded permanently to the US Government on 11th January 1979
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