Photo of the day From the Stripes archives

June 6, 2006

Red Grandy ©Stars and Stripes

Pointe du Hoc, Normandy, June 5, 1984: Participants in a ceremony marking the 40th anniversary of the D-Day invasion of France are silhouetted against the sky at the Ranger Monument, which honors members of the 2nd Ranger Battalion who scaled a 100-foot cliff to take out German artillery positions.