In the run-up to the Allied landing in Normandy, the German reinforcements were bombarded. The rubble and bomb craters are a silent witness to this. Pointe du Hoc was, therefore, captured without too much trouble by American soldiers who climbed the cliffs.
D-Day and the storming of Pointe du Hoc were filmed in the 1960s in The Longest Day. The cliffs of Pointe du Hoc, among other things, were used as a shooting location.