RONALD REAGAN'S FINEST MOMENT: THE BOYS OF POINTE DU HOC: JUNE 6, 1944: 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.

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RONALD REAGAN'S FINEST MOMENT: THE BOYS OF POINTE DU HOC: JUNE 6, 1944: 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.
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0:00.0	This is CBS Eye on the World.
0:08.1	Here's John Batchelor.
0:10.8	It is 1944.
0:13.0	Dog Company, the boys of Puanta do Oak,
0:16.7	the Rangers who accomplished D-Day's toughest mission
0:19.6	and led the way across Europe.
0:22.1	I welcome the author, Patrick K. O'Donnell.
0:25.5	We go immediately to London.
0:27.4	It's early 1944.
0:29.7	Lieutenant Colonel James Earl Rudder and his executive officer, Major Max F. Schneider,
0:35.8	are reporting to Omar Bradley's office in London. They get off the
0:40.7	train at Paddington Station and walk over and are introduced through a Colonel Truman
0:47.1	Thorson to a mission labeled Top Secret. Patrick, congratulations, and this story remains vivid,
0:56.8	more than 10 years after you first published.
1:00.3	And I welcome your return here to talk about the details.
1:04.2	All these men of the Rangers are gone now to my understanding,
1:08.6	and yet the scale of this challenge in D-Day and then afterwards across France,
1:19.1	across Belgium and to Germany, defies easy encapsulation. So we tell the story from top secret.
1:27.3	What was the mission that Rudder and Schneider met that day? Good evening to you.
1:33.3	Good evening, John. It's great to be 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.
1:46.5	And these men were my friends, many of the men of dog company.
1:51.2	I got to know them.
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