D-Day — Pointe du Hoc

In honor of D-Day, 6 June 1944, I am rerunning this entry from my six-part D-Day series, so disregard the first two sentences in the next paragraph:

All this week I’ll be rerunning my six-part series on the D-Day Invasion of Normandy, France. Next week I’ll return you to our Baltic trip and beyond. In the meantime, in commemoration of the 75th anniversary of Operation Neptune (the Normandy landings) and Operation Overlord (the Battle of Normandy) in the event we now collectively refer to as D...