The Crater Riddled Cliffs of Pointe du Hoc Normandy

A few kilometers E of the small-scale line-fishing port of Grandcamp , the Normandy coastline inwards northern French Republic , juts into the ocean forming a sheer promontory called Pointe du Hoc that towers 30 meters higher upwards a narrow pebble beach. It was hither the Germans had built ane of the strongest forts inwards Hitler’s Atlantic wall during the minute World War. This was equally good the highest indicate betwixt 2 sections of the beach , codenamed Utah together with Omaha , where the Allied forces planned to province during D-day invasion on June 6 , 1944.

Pointe du Hoc held half dozen 155mm artillery guns inwards heavily reinforced concrete bunkers that were capable of hitting either beach amongst their big shells , equally good equally the thousands of ships of the invasion fleet anchored off the shores of Normandy. The devastation of these guns was of import if the invasion was the succeed.

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