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<p>Visitors wander at the Pointe du Hoc, Saturday June 5, 2010. The cliffs at Pointe du Hoc, the Normandy promontory where the Rangers stared down death, have eroded by 10 meters (33 feet) since June 6, 1944. Today, the job is to strengthen the cliffs, not conquer them, and keep the bunker used by the Nazis as an observation point from falling into the pounding sea.(AP Photo/Remy de la Mauviniere)</p>

<p>Visitors wander at the Pointe du Hoc, Saturday June 5, 2010. The cliffs at Pointe du Hoc, the Normandy promontory where the Rangers stared down death, have eroded by 10 meters (33 feet) since June 6, 1944. Today, the job is to strengthen the cliffs, not conquer them, and keep the bunker used by the Nazis as an observation point from falling into the pounding sea.(AP Photo/Remy de la Mauviniere)</p>

June 6, 2010

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D-Day Pointe du Hoc site gets facelift
June 6, 2010 9 p.m.

D-Day Pointe du Hoc site gets facelift

Mother Nature playing havoc with former Nazi stronghold

PARIS - The Nazis thought the jagged cliffs were unassailable until the elite U.S. Rangers scaled them in a valiant D-Day assault. Now the rocks are undergoing major surgery to save them from an even greater force - Mother Nature.