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8 Hours Tour landing Beaches of Normandy
The landing Beaches of Normandy from Bayeux or Caen - Private tour
The landing Beaches of Normandy from Bayeux or Caen - Private tour
The landing Beaches of Normandy from Bayeux or Caen - Private tour
The landing Beaches of Normandy from Bayeux or Caen - Private tour

The Normandy Landing Beaches - Private tour

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Overview

Marked by engraved headstones, battle-scarred landscapes and the memories of the fast-disappearing 'Greatest Generation', we will pay tribute to those young men that gave their lives for our freedom. We need to ensure that their storey is passed on from present to future generations !!!

We will cover different topics : the preparation of Overlord operation, the assault of the first Allied waves, the construction of the artificial ports, the set up of the decoy plan called Fortitude under the control of General Patton, the daily life under the German occupation and the relationships between the liberators and the French civilians, the involvement of the French resistance, the construction of the Atlantic wall, the German positions, the war effort, the role of the women, the war correspondants, minorities like code talkers, postal and balloon barage battalions …

All historical facts are documented with detailed military maps, archives and pictures from the Allied and German armies.

Activity location

  • Omaha Beach
    • Avenue de la Liberation
    • Saint-Laurent-sur-Mer, France

Meeting/Redemption Point

  • Omaha Beach
    • Avenue de la Liberation
    • Saint-Laurent-sur-Mer, France

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What's included, what's not

  • What's includedWhat's includedLunch of the driver/guide
  • What's excludedWhat's excludedLunch of the participants and entrance fees for paid sites/museums

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  • Wheelchair accessible
  • Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
  • Public transport options are available nearby
  • Specialised infant seats are available
  • Transport options are wheelchair accessible
  • Suitable for all physical fitness levels
  • We provide for free wheelchair, canes or steps to get on/off the minibus.
  • In accordance with EU regulations about consumer rights, activities services are not subject to the right of withdrawal. Supplier cancellation policy will apply.
  • This activity is provided by a professional trader (a party acting within their trade, business or profession).

Activity itinerary

Omaha Beach
  • 2h
Pay tribute to these brave men at the American cemetery where 10,000 American soldiers are buried or missing in action. Stop at Omaha beach to visit a strongpoint, part of the Atlantic wall.
Pointe du Hoc
  • 1h
Stop at the German battery La Pointe du Hoc, the only place where huge craters are still visible due to naval and aerial bombardments. 225 rangers bravely climbed up the 100 feet cliffs. For a good comprehension of the Atlantic Wall or the german defences.
Utah Beach
  • 2h
Stop at Utah Beach. Lunch at the Roosevelt cafe built on a bunker, the meeting place of the veterans. Visit of the site where the landing of the 4th Infantry Division with Brigadier-General Theodore Roosevelt Junior took place. Monuments dedicated to the US navy with a Higgins boat.
Utah Beach
  • 1h
We will cross the famous hedges which caused so many difficulties to the American troops and will go along the coastline of Utah beach which connects Sainte-Marie-du-Mont to the first village liberated of Sainte-Mère-l'Eglise in the American sector.
Sainte-Mere-Eglise
  • 1h
Stop at Sainte-Mere Eglise. Sainte Mere Eglise is famous thanks to the film The Longest Day because of his paratrooper John Steele of the 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment who landed on the church tower. In addition, two stained glass windows were created for the church to commemorate the liberation of the city by the 82nd Airborne Division on June 6, 1944.

Location

Activity location

  • LOB_ACTIVITIESLOB_ACTIVITIESOmaha Beach
    • Avenue de la Liberation
    • Saint-Laurent-sur-Mer, France

Meeting/Redemption Point

  • PEOPLEPEOPLEOmaha Beach
    • Avenue de la Liberation
    • Saint-Laurent-sur-Mer, France

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