RONALD REAGAN'S FINEST MOMENT: THE BOYS OF POINTE DU HOC: JUNE 6, 1944: 4/8: 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: 4/8: 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 CBSI in the world. I'm John Batchel with Patrick C. O'Donnell. His book is Dog Company,
0:08.7	The Boys of Buanta Do Ok, the Rangers who accomplished today's toughest mission and led the way across Europe.
0:14.8	They're going to begin the way across Europe by withstanding German counterattacks.
0:20.2	The textbook for the German army, the
0:23.3	Wehrmacht, and their many superior units in and around France at this point, was that you
0:31.0	absorb the enemy's offensive, and then you must counterattack immediately. Immediately.
0:39.8	I'm told it was like clockwork.
0:42.2	You knew they were coming.
0:46.3	And they come with their whistles blowing and overwhelming force.
0:56.8	Dog, Easy, and Fox are now arrayed in a defensive line as close to the guns where the guns were displayed as possible on a highway that connects Omaha and Utah Beach. The guns were right in the middle. They could rain on both
1:03.4	of them. Patrick, the counterattacks, they know they're coming, and it's the morning of January of June 7th.
1:11.6	Rudder, the commander of the 2nd Battalion Force, is at the cliffside, not as separated by, I think you said about a mile from the defensive line of dog. Is had a had a was facing towards the east because
1:30.4	they were expecting the attack to come from the east all correct yes that's correct dog and uh the other
1:36.1	companies most of the men were either they were still deployed on top of the cliff fighting the germans
1:42.9	and then they also had whatever members they could spare.
1:46.0	They charged towards the coastal road, which is their secondary objective.
1:50.0	And they dug in in kind of an L shape of a pattern, you know, very like the shallow, shallowels, trenches, if you will, will however they could and they dug in kind of
2:03.7	within these hedgerows near the road and it was that night that the Germans counter-attack
2:10.9	very significantly and company strength hundreds of men charged the ranger's positions.
2:18.5	And they overwhelmed the personnel from one of the companies that was up there.
2:25.1	They took them out.
2:26.4	Several men were captured.
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