We visited the cliffs of Pointe du Hoc and got a feeling for what the 101st was up to with those cliffs and big gun emplacements. The moon craters were everywhere from being bombarded and are still there after 50 years.
You can see it here in this overhead from Google Earth.
You can go into the gun emplacements and truly see how large a set of sguns were emplaced here.
It began to rain during our time at Pointe du Hoc but we stuck around long enough to tour and walk through most of what was there.
I was impressed by the unbelievable size of the gun emplacements and the engineering systems needed to run everything. There were literally large train tracks systems built to bring the ammunition forward to be placed in the gun.
John and Dad checked out some of the views from the bunkers and Dad spent some time reading the Ranger memorial plaque. I remember him being interested in that because they had camped nearby some of the Rangers in when marshaling in England prior to departure.
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