File:Pointe du hoc3.jpg

Summary[edit]

• Collection Title: ARMY PHOTOGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE SECTION (APIS)
• Collection No.: 9309-08
• Description: Overhead aerial of the gun battery at Pointe du Hoc, consisting of four medium casemates, after air bombardment. The battery was captured by a detachment of the 2nd Ranger Bn, 1st US Division, on 6 June 1944, who held it against numerous counter-attacks until relieved the following day. The casemates were found to contain dummy guns.
• Source: IWM

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