RONALD REAGAN'S FINEST MOMENT: THE BOYS OF POINTE DU HOC: JUNE 6, 1944: 2/8: 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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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 CBSI in the world. I'm John Batchewith. My colleague and friend, Patrick K. O'Donnell. |
| 0:10.0 | We've spoken of many instances over the last years about events that seem impossible in retrospect |
| 0:20.0 | in the history of American warfare. |
| 0:23.1 | This one, I believe, is the top of the list. |
| 0:27.0 | It is 405 a.m. 6th of June, 1944. |
| 0:32.1 | The Rangers are given a simple order, man your boats. |
| 0:36.4 | At this point, the artillery barrage from the fleet |
| 0:39.8 | is going into D-Day, Normandy, this vast canvas, over 50 miles, and all these divisions are getting |
| 0:48.9 | ready to land. The critical juncture from the point of view of Omar Bradley, Commander Eisenhower overall |
| 0:56.8 | chief commander, is Puente du Ock because those German guns there can destroy the advantage |
| 1:03.9 | that the Allies have with the surprise on Normandy, and the Germans are surprised. |
| 1:09.2 | They expected the landing to come well to the west at |
| 1:12.8 | Pa de Calais. The Rangers man their boats, and at this point, Patrick, we need to discuss how |
| 1:19.7 | rudder imagined the trip. There are three elements, force A, force B, force C. Force A we're going to stay with because that's where dog company is. |
| 1:30.5 | What was the original intent of Force B and Force C, and what were their orders, Patrick? |
| 1:36.5 | The other forces orders were to, the main objective is point to hawk. |
| 1:42.9 | And it's these guns. |
| 1:45.0 | You know, there's a common myth that the guns weren't quote there. |
| 1:49.0 | In reality, they were not in the casements. |
| 1:53.0 | And the Germans had moved these large guns into an apple orchard, |
| 1:58.0 | which was about 700 yards from the casements, but they were there and they were |
| 2:02.1 | very much ready to go. So they had to be neutralized. And the Allies used everything at their |
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