Dates | Tour (Click on links for more details) | No. of Days | Price* |
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April 22nd - 24th 2022 | America's Normandy D-Day Landings | 4 | £399 per person* |
Normandy battlefield tours - American D Day - DAY 1
We start your Normandy battlefield tours with a pickup from your location in London. From here we drive to Aldbourne in Wiltshire. Here we will retrace the footsteps of Easy Company of the 101st Airborne Brigade which was serialised in the HBOs mini series Band of Brothers.
Then we travel to Upottery near Honiton in Devon.
You will visit the original Nissan Huts and museum on your private America’s D-day tour where you will have an in
depth overview of the operation and can look at the weapons and uniforms that Easy Company wore and used on d-day 1944, along with a short film and discussion with your expert guides the mission ahead that the 101st and the 82nd Airborne had to face. From here our local expert tour guide will show you how and where they were transported to the nearby airfield at Upottery. Drive down the same runway the 101st traveled and took off in their C47 aircrafts for their parachute drop that helped change the world’s history over the days that followed in Normandy France. Consider the task which the American forces faced whilst on our private America’s 3 day D-day Tour.
Day One America’s D-day Tour
Your D-day tour will have an indepth overview of the operation and you can look at the weapons and uniforms that Easy Company wore an dused on D-day 1944, along with a short film and discussion with your expert guide, the mission ahead that the 101st and the 82nd Airborne had to face. From here our local expert tour guide will show you how and where they were transported to the nearby airfield at Upottery. Drive down the same runway the 101st travelled and took off in their C47 aircrafts for their parachute drop that helped changed the world’s history over the days that followed in Normandy France. Consider the task which the American forces faced whilst on our private America’s D-day tour.
Normandy battlefield tours - American D Day - DAY 2
Operation Neptune
Operation Neptune was the code-name for the logistical operation to deliver 156,000 military personnel, vehicles, supplies, ammunition and medical care into Normandy France, from sea and from air.
Operation Overlord was the code-name used for the allied invasion from the Normandy beaches inland.
We start the day with a short drive to Portsmouth where we visit the D-Day museum which is Britain’s only museum dedicated to covering all aspects of the D-Day Landings in Normandy France on 6th June 1944. The museum tells the story of Operation Neptune, from planning and build up of the day itself using objects, interactive material and perspectives of people who were alive at the time, You will be given a greater understanding of the sacrifice which these people made to make Operation Neptune a success.
Following the Operation Neptune tour, we take the afternoon ferry from Portsmouth to Caen in Normandy France where we will arrive late evening and stay the night in the Normandy area in preparation of a busy Day 3 visiting numerous sites where the battles raged on 6th June 1944.
DAY 3
Your day will begin with retelling the story of America’s D-day from landing on Normandy beaches to the drop zones of the American Airborne.
It is recommended that you watch “The Longest Day” and at a minimum Saving Private Ryan’s beach scenes as this will give the day more context and understanding.
The itinerary of the day will include:
- American Military cemetery
- La Cambe German military cemetery
- Angoville-au-Plain church
- St Marie-du-Mont
- Brecourt Manor
- Utah Beach
- St Marcouf/Crisbecq battery
- Azeville battery
- St Mere Eglise church square
This concludes your Normandy tours from England. If you would like to learn more about the American involvement in D Day, you can read more here at Wikipedia.
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