View from Inside a German Gun Position on Pointe Du Hoc View from Inside a German Gun Position on Pointe Du Hoc

View from Inside a German Gun Position on Pointe Du Hoc

This one was infinished when D-Day arrived. The Germans had still been building it the night before the invasion.


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Blog: Normandy: No Words Can Possibly Do It Justice
Date: January 11th 2008

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