"Crowbar!: The Rangers at Pointe du Hoc" Topic
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| Tango01 | 01 Jul 2020 3:33 p.m. PST |
"A commanding voice shouts "Crowbar!" from the carefully monitored radios of Ranger Flotilla headquarters aboard the LSI command ship St. James. With that signal, the 225 men of Dog, Easy and Fox Companies of Force "A" of the 2nd Ranger Battalion launched one of the most incredible and seemingly impossible assaults of military history. Tasked with landing on the beaches of Normandy, France and scaling the towering 100-foot cliffs at Pointe Du Hoc in the face of determined German defenders, the Rangers were the only force that could possibly meet this challenge. Despite initially heading in the wrong direction and landing in jumbled order, the elite Rangers were eager to begin their ascent. Their mission was to find and destroy the six huge 155mm artillery pieces that Field Marshall Erwin Rommel had deployed in the area. These guns had to be neutralized lest they rain down a massive barrage on the American forces landing at Omaha and Utah Beaches. And if that wasn't enough, the Rangers were also ordered to set up roadblocks on the Vierville-Grandcamp highway to delay and harass any Wehrmacht reinforcements from reaching and counterattacking the D-Day landings…"
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 Legion 4   | 01 Jul 2020 3:53 p.m. PST |
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| Marc33594 | 02 Jul 2020 6:02 a.m. PST |
Having visited Point Du Hoc I still can not wrap my head around how they accomplished this feat. It would have been difficult enough to scale the cliffs with available equipment as an exercise. But opposed? And not only to take but hold the position is nothing short of miraculous. |
| Tango01 | 02 Jul 2020 12:36 p.m. PST |
Glad you like it my good friend!. (smile)
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| COL Scott ret | 05 Jul 2020 9:21 p.m. PST |
Those guys were amazing- part of what makes America great the willingness to sacrifice self for the Safety and freedom of others. Indeed the greatest generation |
| Legion 4 | 06 Jul 2020 6:39 a.m. PST |
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