Pointe du Hoc. 2nd Rangers

Pointe du Hoc was one of the most audacious missions of D-day. 3 companies of the 2nd Ranger battalion scaled 100ft high cliffs to take out a gun battery of 6 6inch guns.
They had to hold out for 2 days before being reinforced by troops from Omaha beach.
Video of the Fire control bunker by Geert van den Bogaert ABMC
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Visited sites - as of date of upload
Why D-Day
Pegasus bridge
Omaha beach 1
Omaha beach 2
Sword beach
American airborne 1
American airborne 2
Juno beach
Pointe du Hoc
Projected visits -
Utah beach
Gold beach
British airborne
Band of Brothers
Merville gun battery
The Dives bridges
La Fierre
General Falley
Waverly Wray
Longues gun battery
Arromanches and the Mulberries
82nd airborne
101st airborne
Donald Burgett
Michael Wittman - Villers Bocage - Gaumesnil
Totalise
Worthington Force
Falaise pocket
Taking St Lo
Operation Cobra
Graignes massacre
Joe Beryle
Ed Shames
Angoville au plain
Battle of Bloody gulch
The Malmann line
Taking Cherbourg
Maisy gun battery.
Abbey d'Ardenne and the Canadian 7th June advance
Hillman
Douvre radar station

[@Hew.Jarsol]

Nice documentary. US Rangers are copies of the Commandos who created trained and advised them. The US first SF unit. This explains their success. Also 8 British advisors accompanied the US Rangers at Point Du Hoc aswell as 3 SWANS.

[@Garrett_D-T]

I love your videos, really good mate!

[@WalkingDday]

Luckily , I made this one before they fenced off everything. Can’t visit like that now.

[@kerrydennison7947]

Was the rangers that was deployed to the Pacific theater trained in England same as the other ranger units?

[@WalkingDday]

The 6th Rangers trained in Hawaii.

[@russellealy2087]

Very informative and well dovumented

[@mossbrg5]

Great video. Thank you. Just how did you manage to record video with very few people around? I went to Pointe du Hoc last September and it was very busy.

[@WalkingDday]

It was in February. I made it one of my first videos because I knew they were planning what’s happening now. There are fences along the paths to keep visitors corralled.

[@highdesertutah]

If the bombing raid at first light hadn’t been on target the cliffs would have been much better defended and the Rangers would have likely had much higher casualties and might have been repulsed. A better plan might have been to land gliders a mile inland and attack the guns from the rear. I wonder if the allied planners looked at that and rejected it for some reason. Edit: I just looked at a battle map of the Pointe du Hoc area and a glider landing and attack on the guns from the south wouldn’t have been easy either. The Germans had barbed wire, mine fields, and machine gun emplacements south of the position protecting their rear. Its enough to make you think the guy who planned the Atlantic wall knew what he was doing. 🤓

[@WalkingDday]

A parachute drop inland, or going from Omaha beach. The parachute drop was considered too risky and as happened going from Omaha could take a long time. If they hadn’t gone off course, the action would have been much easier plus 500 reinforcements going in. The number of Germans in the battery is uncertain but with over 50 inland with the guns, and losses due to earlier bombings, there were perhaps less than a hundred on the site.

[@geoffreywatson9798]

The correct term for the bunkers id "casemate" not casement which is a type of window otherwise a decent documentary.

[@WalkingDday]

You’re right.

[@persee2475]

Seems like a very cold response to a lot of work to make a very good documentary.

[@redtobertshateshandles]

@@persee2475 especially when he types id.

[@daviemccallum7759]

Would it of been a different story if the Germany had waited 4 or 5 years

[@WalkingDday]

Waited 4 or 5 years to do what?