D-Day

On June 6th 1944 American Rangers landed at Point Du Hoc. They came for one fierce mission and that mission was to sabatoge Axis anti-air guns to give Allied planes safe passage through the sky. The rangers were met by a heavy rain of bullets from the cliffs above. Even though there was heavy fire it only took the troops 30 minutes to scale and reach the top of the cliffs.



The cliffs

 Once they reached the top they found only empty bunkers with telephone poles sticking out of them acting as a decoy. The rangers took a closer look into the shrubs and saw several camouflaged anti-air guns. Quickly rangers paired up into groups of two. One man would sabotaged an anti-air gun while the other man would provide cover. After sabotaging the anti-air guns the total dead in both events was only 90 out of 225 rangers survived. From there on things got worse, Germany started to send reinforcements to fend off the rangers. On the other hand the rangers were expecting 250 replacement soldiers.

 The replacement soldiers coming by sea drifted miles away from their appointed land destination. Because of this incident the rangers were pined down and finally the replacements came to relive the rangers. From there on the troops conquered German troops by liberating small French towns until they reached Paris.When my family and I went to "Point Du Hoc" we were amazed at the site of the old smashed bunkers and colossal bomb craters. I felt like I was in "Call of Duty 2" my self. It was very cool to go inside the bunkers and see the small holes for guns to shoot out of and the large metal doors. We got to look down the face of the cliffs that the rangers had scaled years ago.

I thought it was cool to look down the same cliffs that the Americans had climbed.