Pointe du Hoc, Cricqueville-en-Bessin

As a retired Vietnam Era veteran, my admiration and respect for those assault landing troops is limitless. If you can "See It" you can kill it. From those cliffs they could be "Seen" to the horizon. Then, there are the cliffs...! For some events there can never be enough praise....!

Many tours come here and on this particular day it was rather crowded as 7 buses of tours were here. We were not able to see the whole site but the views are beautiful and the history is undeniable. Come early or afternoon to avoid the tours. No backpacks allowed in the visitor center.

Amazing experience. The memorial is simple but says so much about the efforts and losses of that moment in history. Seeing this in person was a humbling experience. The artillery craters were mind blowing. They're all over the place and enormous. I will most definitely visit here again! And I highly recommend this as well as many other sites around Normandy.

Several parking spots for many visitors, easy paths to walk to the site. Amazing seeing all the holes where Bombs were dropped. Very humbled to stand there knowing what the French people endured during the German occupation and the perseverance of the allied troops to take the location.

One of the most emblematic places I have ever seen. It stands to remind the hardnesses and losses and bravery in Second World War. I would definitely recommend for visit. It is impressive place. Craters all over from bombing. An epic monument for the soldiers fought there.