A promontory with a cliff overlooking the English Channel on the northwestern coast of Normandy, France. During the Second World War, it was fortified by Germany with concrete bunkers and machine gun posts as part of the Atlantic Wall fortifications.
During D-Day, it was the site of the Battle of Pointe du Hoc, where the United States Army Rangers attacked and scaled the cliff to capture the assumed location of an artillery battery that could hamper the main assault on the beaches, only to discover that the guns have been removed prior to the attack.
