Our Military Tour Background

• We continue our work as official tour operator of the British 6^th Airborne including the 1^st Canadian Parachute Battalion.  We have been the official operator since 1987.

 

• We have worked extensively with US army veteran units including the following Infantry Divisions: 2^nd, 28^th, 29^th, 36^th, 75^th, 78^th, 94^th, 99^th & 104^th; Airborne Divisions 82^nd & 101^st.

 

• In 1992 Tours International was appointed the official tour operator for the 50^th Anniversary of USAAF arrival in England in 1942. We carried out historical and military research into the 8^th and 9^th USAAF, including airfield and billeting locations.

 

• Over 2000 people (including veterans and their families) travelled with us for the 50^th Anniversary of the Normandy Landings in 1994.

 

• For the 60^th Anniversary of the Normandy Landings and Battle of the Bulge in 2004, 380 people (including veterans and their families) were provided with our comprehensive tour service and accommodated in hotels in France and Belgium, pre-booked three years in advance.

 

• As part of our work with veteran groups, we organise official ceremonies, wreath-laying events and vin d’honneur with the local authorities.

 

• Battlefields and campaigns where we have researched and returned with WWII veterans:

* USAAF airfields in England

* Normandy Landing Beaches – Operation Overlord

* Normandy Breakout & Falaise Pocket

* Liberation of Paris

* Market Garden and Arnhem (a “Bridge Too Far”)

*Hurtgen Forest

* Colmar Pocket

* Battle of the Bulge in the Belgian Ardennes

* Remagen Bridge

* Rhine Crossing and Operation Varsity

* Germany: Munich and Berchtesgarden

* Berlin and Praque

* The Nazi Concentration Camps including Dachau and Auschwitz