Remembering D-Day-- Part 4: Pointe du Hoc "Machine Gun Fire Was Absolutely Continuous"

As his battalion approached the breach it suddenly changed direction.  "Lt. Col. Schneider, our battalion commander, was in the second wave.  he saw what was happening and said, 'I'm not going to lose my battalion on that beach.'  We moved approximately a thousand yards.  It made all  the difference."

Even so, Raaen came under fire a "tremendous amount" of small arms fire.  There was "constant noise," a ceaseless "roar."  Bullets cracked in the air, "pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, above you.  The machine gun fire was absolutely continuous."

A Rough Assignement.  --GreGen