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Map of D-Day landings, Omaha Beach
PHOTOGRAPHER: JOHN ELK III
Pointe du Hoc Ranger Memorial
At 7.10am on 6 June 1944, 225 US Army Rangers commanded by Lt Col James
Earl Rudder scaled the 30m cliffs at Pointe du Hoc, where the Germans had a bat-
tery of huge artillery guns perfectly placed to rain shells onto the beaches of Utah
and Omaha.
Today the
site
( 02 31 51 90 70; admission free; 9am-5pm)
, which France
turned over to the US government in 1979, looks much as it did more than half a
century ago. The ground is pockmarked with bomb craters, and the German com-
mand post (no longer open to the public because it's too close to the eroding cliff)
and several of the concrete gun emplacements are still standing, scarred by bullet
holes and blackened by flame-throwers.
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