POINTE DU HOC: Debunking D-Day's Biggest Myth
POINTE DU HOC: Debunking D-Day's Biggest Myth | World War II Live
The guns were gone by the time the Rangers scaled the cliffs — but that fact has fueled one of the most persistent myths of D-Day. Dr. John C. McManus and Kevin Hymel take aim at the idea, popularized by Cornelius Ryan's The Longest Day and cemented in the 1962 film of the same name, that the mission was a pointless waste because the guns "weren't there."
In this episode, John and Kevin dig into what actually happened to the German battery at Pointe du Hoc: how French Resistance intelligence tracked the guns before the…
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