80TH D-DAY: POINTE DU HOC: 1/8: Dog Company: The Boys of Pointe du Hoc — the Rangers Who Landed at D-Day and Fought Across Europe,by Patrick K. O’Donnell, with John Pruden as narrator. Blackstone Audio, Inc. Audible Audiobook – Unabridged

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80TH D-DAY: POINTE DU HOC: 1/8: Dog Company: The Boys of Pointe du Hoc — the Rangers Who Landed at D-Day and Fought Across Europe,by Patrick K. O’Donnell, with John Pruden as narrator. Blackstone Audio, Inc. Audible Audiobook – Unabridged

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It is said that the right man in the right place at the right time can mean the difference between victory and defeat. This is the dramatic story of 68 soldiers in the US Army's Second Ranger Battalion, Company D — "Dog Company" — who made that difference, time and again. From D-day, when German guns atop Pointe du Hoc threatened the Allied landings and the men of Dog Company scaled the sheer 90-foot cliffs to destroy them; to the slopes of Hill 400, in Germany’s Hürtgen Forest, where the Rangers launched a desperate bayonet charge across an open field; to a "quiet" section of the Ardennes, where Dog Company suddenly found itself on the tip of the spear at the Battle of the Bulge; the men of Dog Company made the difference.

1944 POINTE DU HOC

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0:00.0	This is CBS I on the World. Here's John Bachelor.
0:10.0	It is 1944. Dog, the Boys of Puanta-Dew Oak, the Rangers who accomplished D-Day's toughest mission
0:20.0	and led the way across Europe.
0:22.0	I welcome the author Patrick K O'Donnell. We go immediately to London. It's early
0:27.8	1944. Lieutenant Colonel James Earl Rutter and his Executive Officer Major Max F Schneider are reporting to
0:37.1	Omar Bradley's office in London.
0:40.1	They got off the train at Paddington Station and walk over and are introduced through a
0:46.0	Colonel Truman Thorsen to a mission labeled top secret.
0:51.4	Patrick, congratulations and this story remains vivid more than a 10 years after you first published.
1:00.0	And I welcome your return here to talk about the details.
1:04.0	All these men of the Rangers are gone now to my understanding.
1:09.0	And yet, the scale of this challenge in D-Day and then afterwards across France, across Belgium,
1:20.0	into Germany, defies easy encapsulation so we tell the story from top secret. What
1:28.0	was the mission that rudder and Schneider met that day? Good evening to you. Good evening John it's great to be
1:35.2	back and this for me is a sacred story I've written many books on World War II, seven and all, focusing on the elite units and these men were my friends.
1:48.0	Many of the men of dog company, I got to know them. My daughter grew up with these uncles of World War II, the great
1:57.2	heroes of T-Day. And, you know, for me it was a very special thing to be able to tell their story.
2:05.0	And I had known them.
2:06.0	I interviewed them in the 90s in the 2000s.
2:08.6	For a long time.
2:11.1	In their story, that was being discussed there in that office was the most
2:17.2	dangerous mission of D-Day. They had to take out six large guns that could either be pointed at Omaha Beach or Utah Beach or at the
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