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D-Day Pointe du Hoc site gets facelift to save it (AP)

June 5th, 2010

A US Air Force plane flies above the Pointe du Hoc in france, as a giant crane is seen in background, as workers try to reinforce the cliff and the bunker built on it by the nazis, Saturday June 5, 2010. The cliffs at Pointe du Hoc, the Normandy promontory where the Rangers stared down death, have eroded by 10 meters (33 feet) since June 6, 1944. Today, the job is to strengthen the cliffs, not conquer them, and keep the bunker used by the Nazis as an observation point from falling into the pounding sea.(AP Photo/Remy de la Mauviniere)AP - The Nazis thought the jagged cliffs were unassailable until the elite U.S. Rangers scaled them in a valiant D-Day assault. Now the rocks are undergoing major surgery to save them from an even greater force — Mother Nature.


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