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Another unit of 225 Rangers under Lieut. Colonel James Rudder was dispatched to Pointe du Hoc, a 100-foot-high promontory four miles west of Omaha and ten miles east of Utah. Their assignment: to knock out six heavily defended German 155-mm guns that could command both beaches. They fired rocket-propelled grappling hooks up to the top of the cliff and then began the fearful climb up ropes and ladders. The Germans splattered the oncoming Rangers with machine-gun fire, grenades, even boulders, and they managed to cut several of the ropes on which the Rangers were inching...
...user will be able to zoom in on Liberace's diamond rings, for example, or freeze Pete Rose in mid-swat. Digital technology can also increase picture clarity up to 100% and would make the images on home TV as clear as those in a good 35-mm slide...
...Minh proclaimed their victory by waving a red Vietnamese flag from its corrugated and sandbagged rooftop. Farther out lie two of the eight major French perimeter command posts, code-named Beatrice and Eliane by the garrison commander, General Christian de Castries. After three decades, U.S.-made artillery, including 155-mm and 105-mm howitzers, which were supplied to the French by Washington, is still in place...
...sleep five nights in a row with rotting corpses." Is he afraid of dying? "Of course not," he says. "If I were, I wouldn't be in the army." While most of his comrades carry lucky charms, Mohammed wears only an empty 9-mm shell casing around his neck. He is of a breed of soldier who knows nothing in life except battle, hunger, pain, cold and thirst. He and his friends say they are determined to die in the saddle, "like true Goran...
...removing abandoned rebel vehicles. Government spokesmen later said that the soldiers were reconnoitering along a road that "might have been mined." Finally, a day after the funeral, Hernu told the French Parliament that the deaths had occurred when one of the soldiers "imprudently or perhaps accidentally" mishandled a 90-mm shell...