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Map of preservation work at Pointe du Hoc Memorial, France
From left, ABMC Deputy Secretary Robert J. Dalessandro, National WWII Museum President and CEO Stephen Watson, and ABMC Commissioner Evans C. Spiceland met to formalize partnership.
The new Pointe du Hoc Visitor Center opened to the public on March 15, 2014.
The Germans, after suffering bombardment before D-Day, moved the surviving 155mm guns from Pointe du Hoc and re-positioned them in a hedgerow south of this location. They erected dummy guns made from wooden poles to fool Allied aircraft. Rangers found and destroyed the actual guns, positioned to fire at Utah Beach, on the morning of D-Day. This recaptured gun is similar to the guns destroyed that day.
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