My favorite !
A German gun battery, the Normandy’s most powerful, six long range 155 mm guns covering the approach and the beaches of Utah and Omaha, an abrupt 100 feet high cliff and 240 German soldiers or so defending it… and 30 minutes for 225 US army Rangers to deal with it ! A mad dash to the cliffs’s bottom, a desperate climb with rope ladders and grappling hooks under the German fire, then over the top of what became a lunar landscape… The place remains almost exactly as it was at the end of the battle ; a battle that ended at midday on the 8th of June.
