Tour Programme

Day 1 - Friday June 04 - British Airborne
Depart Paris and London for our transfer to Normandy. Visit the British 6th Airborne zone of operations to see the "Pegasus Bridge" and the British Airborne cemetery in nearby Ranville. See the shell damaged church. We visit the new Pegasus Museum. We then move to the Gondree Café (first liberated building) and meet Arlette Gondree who was four at the time of the liberation. Dinner and overnight accommodation in Normandy.

Day 2 - Saturday June 05 - US Airborne and Utah Beach
Breakfast. Today we drive into the sector of the U.S. 82nd Airborne Division. We visit Saint Mere Eglise and its famed 13th century church with its Airborne stained glass windows. We visit the Airborne museum followed by lunch on your own. This afternoon we visit the La Fiere bridgehead and its "Iron Mike" U.S. Airborne statue. This afternoon we visit Utah Beach and see where American soldiers wrote their names and addresses inside a captured German bunker. We view other German bunkers and also Drive through the 101st Airborne drops zones C and D then onto the Division command post. We pass the Brécourt Manor captured by Company E of the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment. We return to our Normandy hotel for our overnight accommodation.

Day 3 - Sunday June 06 - D Day - US Omaha, Pointe du Hoc and Cemetery
This morning we visit the German military cemetery at La Cambe then drive to the Pointe du Hoc, This coastal gun battery was captured by the men of the U.S. 2nd Ranger Battalion. We then travel down the Vierville Draw to the 29th Infantry Division sector of Omaha Beach. After a walk on the beach we drive east on the coast road then up the "Les Moulins" Draw to the U.S. Military Cemetery at St. Laurent sur Mer where we pay our personal respects with a wreath laying ceremony to those who gave their lives for our freedom. See the only German coastal gun battery still sporting three of its four guns. Lunch is on your own. The Afternoon at leisure to visit the medieval city of Bayeux with it's ancient cathedral. You have the option to see the famous Bayeux Tapestry depicting another famous invasion in 1066 or the 1944 Normandy Museum. Overnight in our Normandy hotel.

Day 4 - Monday June 07 - British and Canadian
After breakfast we visit Arromanches and see the remnants of one of the two artificial harbors erected by the Allies after D-Day. Drive along the British Beaches GOLD, JUNO and SWORD. Return to Paris or London.

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