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Legends · **More info -** 09-03-2002, 06:31 PM

biggrin: This piece of writing is from the book- June 6, 1994: The Voices of D-Day, so I hope this is also useful to your map.

Note:The Rangers at Pointe du Hoc landed on its beach in small boats, as is described by D Company's Ranger Jack Kuhn: "These were the smallest boats I had ever seen used. When you stood up, the upper part of your body was exposed to the enemy and the elements. There was very little room in the craft, and it was heavily loaded." Note: the boats were roughly 12 feet wide and 30 feet long, with seating along the sides.
Kuhn continued: "We spotted out fighter planes overhead and saw the navy ships blasting the shoreline and inland. We saw the rockets projected. We had never seen these before. I realized now that we were taking part in the greatest battle in history and felt proud to be part in it."..."Now we realized we would land late. The enemy would have time to regroup after the bombing attacks. The landing would be contested more heavily then expected. To save time, instead of our boat rounding Pointe du Hoc on the right side of the cliff, we went to the left of the Pointe."
Len Lomell, who was with Kuhn remembers: "It was cloudy, foggy, dawn breaking. When we got within a mile, I could see a little dark line across the horizon. Then our rocket barges lit up the whole sky, the biggest display of fireworks you would ever see."
Ranger Lou Lisko: "Seventy yards from the cliff,a ranger who was sitting across from me was hit in the chest by bullet in the upper chest. Bullets from machine guns and rifles were flying from the top of the Hoc."
"We could see Rangers climbing the cliffs, pulling themselves up on ropes and aluminum ladders. The Germans were throwing hand grenades, the "potato mashers" that were shaped like that kind of cooking tool. It had a wooden handle and a canlike container of explosives."
"All along the narrow ground beneath the towering promontory, Rangers struggled to make their wau up. In some cases, climbers ascended thirty or forty feet on a rocket-launched rope only to fall to the beach as their grapnel gave way or a rope slipped- or was cut."

more info on the battle later, I gotta go

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Legends is Offline Member Posts: 36 Join Date: Sep 2002	More info - 09-03-2002, 06:31 PM biggrin: This piece of writing is from the book- June 6, 1994: The Voices of D-Day, so I hope this is also useful to your map. Note:The Rangers at Pointe du Hoc landed on its beach in small boats, as is described by D Company's Ranger Jack Kuhn: "These were the smallest boats I had ever seen used. When you stood up, the upper part of your body was exposed to the enemy and the elements. There was very little room in the craft, and it was heavily loaded." Note: the boats were roughly 12 feet wide and 30 feet long, with seating along the sides. Kuhn continued: "We spotted out fighter planes overhead and saw the navy ships blasting the shoreline and inland. We saw the rockets projected. We had never seen these before. I realized now that we were taking part in the greatest battle in history and felt proud to be part in it."..."Now we realized we would land late. The enemy would have time to regroup after the bombing attacks. The landing would be contested more heavily then expected. To save time, instead of our boat rounding Pointe du Hoc on the right side of the cliff, we went to the left of the Pointe." Len Lomell, who was with Kuhn remembers: "It was cloudy, foggy, dawn breaking. When we got within a mile, I could see a little dark line across the horizon. Then our rocket barges lit up the whole sky, the biggest display of fireworks you would ever see." Ranger Lou Lisko: "Seventy yards from the cliff,a ranger who was sitting across from me was hit in the chest by bullet in the upper chest. Bullets from machine guns and rifles were flying from the top of the Hoc." "We could see Rangers climbing the cliffs, pulling themselves up on ropes and aluminum ladders. The Germans were throwing hand grenades, the "potato mashers" that were shaped like that kind of cooking tool. It had a wooden handle and a canlike container of explosives." "All along the narrow ground beneath the towering promontory, Rangers struggled to make their wau up. In some cases, climbers ascended thirty or forty feet on a rocket-launched rope only to fall to the beach as their grapnel gave way or a rope slipped- or was cut." more info on the battle later, I gotta go