RHH's photos with the keyword: emplacement

This is one of the gun emplacements near Pointe du Hoc and Omaha Beach taken by the Army Rangers on D-Day, June 6, 1944. It stands on the cliffs above Omaha Beach and was a part of the defense that delayed the landings until the Army Rangers scaled the cliffs and took the fortifications there.

The area above Omaha Beach near Pointe du Hoc has been left as it was after the D-Day landings. Pointe du Hoc is a promontory which was taken by the US Army Rangers on D-Day who scaled 35 metre cliffs to take the fortifications there after the landings had stalled. The barbed wire in the photo was protecting a gun emplacement.