" Pvt. Robert Fruling said he spent two and a half days at Pointe-du-Hoc, all of it crawling on his stomach. He returned on the twenty-fifth anniversary of D-Day “to see what the place looked like standing up” (Louis Lisko interview, EC). "

― Stephen E. Ambrose , D-Day, June 6, 1944: The Battle for the Normandy Beaches