Cricqueville-en-Bessin (France) (AFP) – A large section of the Pointe du Hoc cliffs has collapsed on France’s northern coast, damaging the site of a daring vertical assault by US Army Rangers on D-Day in 1944. “Part of the outcrop overlooking the English Channel collapsed” on Friday, the American Battle Monuments Commission, which has cared for the site since 1956, said in a statement. “No one was injured in the landslide, which fell into the sea, and there is no risk for visitors,” it added. An AFP photographer saw around 100 tourists present on a sunny day at the site in Normandy in northern…