Advanced Tobruk System (ATS): Pointe du Hoc

On June 6, 1944 one of the most audacious assaults in the annals of military history took place as the men of the 2nd Ranger Battalion landed on the shores of Hitler's Fortress Europa in the most unlikely spot—the cliffs at Pointe du Hoc. What took place was a scaling of the steep cliffs under enemy fire, storming of the enemy positions atop the promentory, and an attack inland to the D514 highway. The search was on for a German battery poised to rain steel down on the landings at Omaha Beach. What would result would be a desperate struggle to hold out against wave after wave of enemy counter-attacks, determined to push the Rangers back into the sea, an effort that very nearly succeeded.