Restoration work in France’s Normandy region got underway this week to modernize and preserve a legendary D-Day site that was showing its age.
President Biden’s itinerary for commemorating D-Day’s 80th anniversary in France includes giving a speech on Friday at a Normandy site called Pointe du Hoc. The 100-foot cliff juts out over the Omaha ...
President Biden on Friday drew on the heroism of the U.S. Army Rangers who scaled the cliffs of Pointe du Hoc on D-Day in 1944, urging Americans to think of their nation's cause as greater than ...
The Leo Strauss Letter That Previewed a Modern-Day Divide The All-American Game On that day in Normandy in 1984, Ronald Reagan used the right words, struck the right tone, and paid fitting tribute to ...
The following story first appeared on AL.com on June 6, 2014. It has been updated: It’s been 30 years since President Ronald Reagan stood on the shores of the northern coast of France and paid tribute ...
Pointe du Hoc on Normandy's northern coast was D-Day's "high ground." The promontory's 30-meter high cliffs overlooked two long and relatively flat "beach zones" capable of handling large amphibious ...