One of D-Day’s Most Famous, Heroic Assaults May Have Been Unnecessary

One of D-Day’s most famous, heroic assaults may have been unnecessary

Pointe du Hoc, France – Seventy-five years ago Thursday, a battalion of elite U.S. Army Rangers scaled the 100-foot promontory here overlooking Omaha Beach, with nothing more than ropes and rickety ladders. As enemy gunfire and grenades rained down, picking them off as they climbed, the Rangers managed to secure the strategic high ground and silence a small battery of long-range German guns that had been moved inland.

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