American D-Day Beaches Full Day Tour from Bayeux
Bayeux, France
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Trip Type: Day Trips
Duration: 9 hours
Enjoy an informative full day tour of the U.S Landing sectors and discover the highlights of this battlefield with a knowledgeable tour guide who will give you the details of the D-DAY events. Also see the U.S Airborne landing zones with a look at a German Gun Battery plus the British Mulberry Harbor of Arromanches. Leaving from a central location in Bayeux or from your hotel at 8:30 am you will go on a 9 hour tour in a comfortable 8 passenger minibus.
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Enjoy an informative full day tour of the U.S Landing sectors and discover the highlights of this battlefield with a knowledgeable tour guide who will give you the details of the D-DAY events. Also see the U.S Airborne landing zones with a look at a German Gun Battery plus the British Mulberry Harbor of Arromanches. Leaving from a central location in Bayeux or from your hotel at 8:30 am you will go on a 9 hour tour in a comfortable 8 passenger minibus.Starting from a Bayeux central location or from your hotel join your guide for a guided tour of the U.S Landing sectors, Airborne drop zones, and the British Mulberry Harbor in a 8 passenger mini-van.
Visit the town square of Sainte Mere Eglise where the American 82nd Airborne jumped and the first men to touch the ground paid the ultimate price. After a tough beginning the U.S soldiers will win the battle of Sainte Mere Eglise and hold the town against numerous German counter attacks. Some might recognize the church from the movie, "The Longest Day".
Utah Beach - Walk where the U.S 4th Division landed and headed into the Norman countryside. An overlooked beach, it ended up being one of the most successful landings that day (despite landing in the wrong place!) From here Brigadier General Theodore Roosevelt led his troops into Normandy, and will earn the Congressional Medal of Honor. A visit to the Utah Beach Museum is included. A lunch stop in one of the local pubs or restaurants (own expense).
La Pointe du Hoc - This battlefield, left as is after the June 6th 1944 attack, will transport you to the heart of the combat delivered by the first wave of the US Rangers 2nd battalion under the command of Colonel Rudder. These German fortifications threatened both Utah and Omaha Beach. Air raids and naval shelling have reduced this terrain to a lunar landscape.
Walk on Omaha Beach and follow in the footsteps of the American soldiers who sacrificed their lives on this stretch of sand during the V Corp's attack made up of the 29th Infantry Division “Blue & Grey” as well as the First Infantry Division, known as "The Big Red One". This cliff-lined beach was the most unfavorable of the five landing beaches that morning. This beach will bear the name of "Bloody" Omaha.
Normandy American Cemetery - Pay your respect to the young men and women who left their native lands and made the ultimate sacrifice for freedom during the summer of 1944. 9,387 graves along with 1,557 names of missing soldiers engraved on a wall, remind us of the price of freedom.
German Gun Battery - One of the few remaining elements of Hitler's Atlantic Wall, this is the only one in the region to still contain its 150 mm guns. The battery at Longues Sur Mer threatened the Allied fleets off Omaha and Gold Beach. Ultimately taken out by the Devonshire Regiment of the British 50th Division. Later used in the filming of the movie, "The Longest Day".
Arromanches Mulberry Harbor - One of the most important operations on the Normandy coast is the British engineering feat of building an artificial floating harbor which allowed tons of equipment and millions of allied soldiers to join the fight in the months following D-Day. The Mulberry Harbor is regarded as the major contribution which ultimately gave the Allies the victory in the Battle of Normandy.
Visit the town square of Sainte Mere Eglise where the American 82nd Airborne jumped and the first men to touch the ground paid the ultimate price. After a tough beginning the U.S soldiers will win the battle of Sainte Mere Eglise and hold the town against numerous German counter attacks. Some might recognize the church from the movie, "The Longest Day".
Utah Beach - Walk where the U.S 4th Division landed and headed into the Norman countryside. An overlooked beach, it ended up being one of the most successful landings that day (despite landing in the wrong place!) From here Brigadier General Theodore Roosevelt led his troops into Normandy, and will earn the Congressional Medal of Honor. A visit to the Utah Beach Museum is included. A lunch stop in one of the local pubs or restaurants (own expense).
La Pointe du Hoc - This battlefield, left as is after the June 6th 1944 attack, will transport you to the heart of the combat delivered by the first wave of the US Rangers 2nd battalion under the command of Colonel Rudder. These German fortifications threatened both Utah and Omaha Beach. Air raids and naval shelling have reduced this terrain to a lunar landscape.
Walk on Omaha Beach and follow in the footsteps of the American soldiers who sacrificed their lives on this stretch of sand during the V Corp's attack made up of the 29th Infantry Division “Blue & Grey” as well as the First Infantry Division, known as "The Big Red One". This cliff-lined beach was the most unfavorable of the five landing beaches that morning. This beach will bear the name of "Bloody" Omaha.
Normandy American Cemetery - Pay your respect to the young men and women who left their native lands and made the ultimate sacrifice for freedom during the summer of 1944. 9,387 graves along with 1,557 names of missing soldiers engraved on a wall, remind us of the price of freedom.
German Gun Battery - One of the few remaining elements of Hitler's Atlantic Wall, this is the only one in the region to still contain its 150 mm guns. The battery at Longues Sur Mer threatened the Allied fleets off Omaha and Gold Beach. Ultimately taken out by the Devonshire Regiment of the British 50th Division. Later used in the filming of the movie, "The Longest Day".
Arromanches Mulberry Harbor - One of the most important operations on the Normandy coast is the British engineering feat of building an artificial floating harbor which allowed tons of equipment and millions of allied soldiers to join the fight in the months following D-Day. The Mulberry Harbor is regarded as the major contribution which ultimately gave the Allies the victory in the Battle of Normandy.
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