To honor the occasion more broadly, Reagan chose to focus on “the boys of Pointe du Hoc,” choosing the “lonely windswept point on the northern shores of France” as both the setting and the ...

To the D-Day speech at Pointe du Hoc. There’s something I always want to say about it. The speech was a plain-faced one. It was about what it was about, the valor shown 40 years before by the ...

The assault on Pointe du Hoc was a key battle of the D-Day invasion. Image: National Archives President Reagan addresses the surviving U.S. Army veterans of the assault against Pointe du Hoc on ...