CSPAN3 President Reagan At D-Day 40th Anniversary June 8, 2014
Point on the northern shore of france. The air is soft. But 40 years ago at this moment, the air was dense with smoke and the cries of men. The air was filled with the crack of rifle fire and therefore of canada and of cannon. Rangers jumped off the British Landing craft and ran to the bottom of these cliffs. Their mission was one of the most difficult and daring of the invasion, to climb these desolate cliffs and take out the enemy guns. The rangers saw the enemies shooting down with them at them. The american rangers began to climb. They shot rope ladders over the edge of the cliffs and bega...