James Earl Rudder
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James Earl Rudder was a United States Army major general. As a lieutenant colonel, he commanded the historic Pointe du Hoc battle during the Invasion of Normandy. He also commanded the US troops at the Battle of the Hürtgen Forest, and led a series of delaying actions and ambushes during the Battle of the Bulge. General Rudder also at various times served as Texas Land Commissioner, the 16th president of Texas A&M University, third president of the Texas A&M University System, mayor of Brady, Texas, and a high school and college teacher and coach.
Rudder's statue on the Texas A&M University campus in College Station, Texas
James Earl Rudder Memorial Park in Eden, Texas
Pointe du Hoc
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La Pointe du Hoc is a promontory with a 35-metre (110 ft) cliff overlooking the English Channel on the northwestern coast of Normandy in the Calvados department, France.
A 15.5 cm K 418(f) gun, of the type used in the Pointe du Hoc battery, is preserved at the Atlantic Wall on Jersey.
Pre-invasion bombing of Pointe du Hoc by 9th Air Force A-20 Havoc bombers
Rangers from 2nd Ranger Battalion demonstrate the rope ladders they used to scale Pointe du Hoc
Surviving observation bunker at the Pointe du Hoc