Rangers in Campaign 5
- February 25, 2024
- Juancho Duma
In April 1943 the 2nd, 3rd and 4th Ranger Battalions were activated. And the sixth, in the Philippines. Volunteers from all units of the U.S. Army came together that spring, attracted by the publicity that Lt. Col. Darby's Rangers had capitalized on in North Africa.The new Rangers would storm Normandy at Pointe du Hoc and Bloody Omaha, conquer Brest, take Hill 400 in the Hürtgen Forest, and stage …