Pointe du Hoc: photographs of the liberation

Before the Battle

Preparation of the climb with grapples launched by rockets and "DUKW" equipped with a London fire brigade ladder, with a Lewis double machine gun in mind.
These ladders on DUKW could not be approached close enough to the cliff

(details) Mounted near the tip

The Battle

see also the history of the D E and F Cies of the 2ndRanger Bn

On board Texas, arrival of the first prisoners

On 7 June, Texas learned that the Rangers at the peak of the Hoc were lacking ammunition. With two LCVPs, he then brought ammunition to the Rangers.
The two barges returned around 17/18h bringing back 35 wounded Rangers and 27 prisoners (20 Germans, 4 Italians and 3 French, the stairmen being probably required for compulsory work). They also brought back the body of a deceased Coast Guard. The prisoners were transferred to an LST to be sent to England.

After the Battle

The cannons of Pointe du Hoc, where the rangers found them during the battle

Texas officers came to the site from the very first days

Grévilly's farm in 2008 (photo François Mathy, who found the farm where the generals had passed on June 12, 44)

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Photo series taken for EDF for studies of a possible nuclear power plant in Englesqueville

Plan lifted at the time of American work around 1980