 Companies D, E, and F of the 2nd would have to do their best without help until Force C could get across four miles of enemy territory and join up with them.When the landing crafts hit a narrow, pebbled beach near a cliff, German machine-gunners opened up on the Rangers.Some of them were killed, but the rest of them got to the bottom of the cliff and used miniature rockets to fire grappling ropes up to the top.