![IMG_7704-IMG_7705 The task fell to three companies of the 2nd Ranger Battalion. Lieutenant Colonel James E. Rudder led the 225-man Ranger force. Their mission was to land on the...](thumbs/IMG_7704-IMG_7705.webp)
The task fell to three companies of the 2nd Ranger Battalion. Lieutenant Colonel James E. Rudder led the 225-man Ranger force. Their mission was to land on the…
![16 Upon reaching the top they found only empty gun emplacements among the craters of the pre-invasion bombardments. The force then gradually advanced inland where...](thumbs/16.webp)
Upon reaching the top they found only empty gun emplacements among the craters of the pre-invasion bombardments. The force then gradually advanced inland where…
![48 Due to navigational difficulties the assault had commenced forty minutes late and the follow-on force, assuming the attack had failed, landed to the east at...](thumbs/48.webp)
Due to navigational difficulties the assault had commenced forty minutes late and the follow-on force, assuming the attack had failed, landed to the east at…
This forbidding spur of land, which was considered by the Germans to be…