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Normandy Landings 3 Day
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You are guaranteed a tour that very few other tour operators can give you. Our historian tour guides have been escorting American World War
II veterans back to their European battlefields since 1982 and are able to relate many personal stories and
experiences gained first hand from the guys who were there!
The battle plan, code named Overlord, called for the largest amphibious landing ever to start the liberation of occupied Europe from Nazi Germany. It began in the early morning hours of June 6, 1944, D-Day. Thousands of American, British, and Canadian soldiers, backed byFrench soldiers, paratroopers, bombers and warships, stormed a 50 mile stretch of French beach called Normandy. Allied bombers, unable to see through the heavy clouds, missed their beach targets. Three airborne divisions of US and British forces dropped inland . Some soldiers were machine gunned before they landed, others landed miles from their designated drop zones. The sea assault had beenplanned for a rising tide to expose as many underwater obstacles as possible. At 0631 hrs the first landing craft dropped its ramp and US troops began wading 100 yards to UTAH Beach. Ten miles to the east, at OMAHA Beach, US soldiers found only death and misery. Much of the air assault was a fiasco due to the stormy weather. The British glider troops seized key bridges east of Caen and US Airborne troops seized their first key town, Sainte- Mere-Eglise. We visit UTAH and OMAHA Beaches, and Ste Mere Eglise with its ancient church and US Airborne museum. We see one of the first markers of the 'Voie de la Liberté' or 'Liberty Way'. We also see the acclaimed Cafe Gondrée, which went down in history as the first French building to be liberated and we visit Arromanches to view the remains of the Mulberry man-made harbor.
A maximum 7 people per tour with personal attention