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U.S. Navy Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and his wife Deborah tour the cliffs at Pointe-du-Hoc, France, Oct. 4, 2009. The 100-foot cliffs were scaled, under heavy fire, by a battalion of U.S. Army Rangers in the opening hours of the D-Day invasions in 1944 knocking out a battery of heavy German guns allowing the entire invasion to be successful.

CLIFFS AT POINTE-DU-HOC

U.S. Navy Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and his wife Deborah tour the cliffs at Pointe-du-Hoc, France, Oct. 4, 2009. The 100-foot cliffs were scaled, under heavy fire, by a battalion of U.S. Army Rangers in the opening hours of the D-Day invasions in 1944 knocking out a battery of heavy German guns allowing the entire invasion to be successful.

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