Talk:Pointe du Hoc

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The Guns of Navarone is set in the Greek Islands (the natives being a major plot point), is set around an evacuation rather than an invasion, on a mission that lasts several days rather than just an hour or so, and the guns are destroyed instead of being found missing. I don't think the few similarities left are with the mention. DJ Clayworth 14:36, 24 Mar 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Pronunciation

Can anyone provide an accurate pronunciation? The first two words in the name are standard French; so they're easy enough, but how is "Hoc" pronounced? Does it rhyme with "bloc" or with "beau"? I've been able to gather very little from the Internet, but there does seem to be some suggestion that the C is not pronounced, although I think that would be rather unusual for French. Anyway, if anyone knows for sure, here are the two possible IPA pronunciations:

/pwε̃t dy ɔk/ (rhyming with "bloc")

/pwε̃t dy o/ (rhyming with "beau")

One of those may be transferred into the article. Kelisi 00:38, 12 December 2005 (UTC)

Come to think of it, the final C in tabac is not pronounced; so perhaps I can risk inserting the second of those two. If anyone finds out it's the other one, don't hesitate to change it. I'll try asking at French Wikipedia. Kelisi 00:47, 12 December 2005 (UTC)

I've had an answer. According to Noplay over on fr.wikipedia, the C is pronounced; so it's /pwε̃t dy ɔk/. So I'll change it again. Kelisi 16:43, 12 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Little Boy reference

I've got a lead on the citation which is needed for the section "The Target" which states "several bombardments, which consisted of more total firepower than the bomb Little Boy": http://www.worldwar2history.info/D-Day/Pointe-Du-Hoc.html is a synopsis of the Pointe du Hoc engagement based on Ch. 8 of "The Victors: Eisenhower and His Boys: The Men of World War II" by Stephen E. Ambrose, and it states that "Pointe-du-Hoc got hit by more than ten kilotons of high explosives, the equivalent of the explosive power of the atomic bomb used at Hiroshima". If someone could look up the actual page reference from that book, we could have a full bibliographic citation. --Country Wife 15:43, 8 July 2006 (UTC)