Pointe du Hoc, Cricqueville-en-Bessin, France
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Pointe du Hoc, Cricqueville-en-Bessin, France
‘D-Day’ is shorthand for the seaborne invasion that took place here at the Normandy beaches on either side of Pointe du Hoc, France, on this day in 1944. The operation took 13 Allied nations roughly a year to plan, with Britain, Canada and the US joining together in an amphibious assault on Omaha and Utah Beaches. The ultimate goal was to take out the German battlements constructed here on the clifftop of Pointe du Hoc. In brutal combat, Allied casualties surpassed 10,000. But this decisive Allied victory turned the tide of the battle on the Western Front, helping to drive back Nazi occupation.
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