D-Day Discovery: American & British sectors, 2-Day tour for 5-8 P

What's Included

Meeting and pickup

Itinerary

Day 1
Day 1: German Defence, British & American Airborne actions on D-Day.
9 stops
1
Pegasus Bridge
Arrival at the Pegasus Bridge Memorial at 10:30 a.m. This museum recounts the events that took place on the night of June 5-6, 1944, around the Bénouville bridge. It tells the story of the capture of this bridge by British commandos who arrived by air in gliders. The action was swift and the bridge was renamed “Pegasus Bridge” in 1945 by the authors of this glorious and spectacular episode of D-Day.
1 hour • Admission ticket not included
2
Visit to the “Glider Marker 1 & Marker 2” memorial stones. The memorial stones mark the location where the gliders landed.
20 minutes • Admission ticket free
3
Visit to Café Gondrée. This café went down in history as the first house in France to be liberated by the Allied forces on June 6, 1944.
15 minutes • Admission ticket free
4
One hour can be spent in Benouville for lunch.
1 hour • Admission ticket free
5
Merville Battery Museum. This reinforced German position was an artillery position on the “Atlantic Wall.” A visit here provides insight into the coastal defense systems deployed by German forces to prevent an invasion by Allied armies from the sea. Visitors can also learn about the lifestyle of the German occupation troops. A visit to the Merville Battery will also provide insight into the assault on this position on the night of June 5-6, 1944, by British paratroopers from the 6th Airborne Division, who arrived by air.
1 hour 30 minutes • Admission ticket free
6
Visit to the cemetery where German soldiers, killed during the battle of Normandy in 1944, are buried.
20 minutes • Admission ticket free
7
Sainte-Mere-Eglise
Visit to the Airborne museum, a very well furnished museum with a lot of interesting pictures, maps and military equipment giving an overview of the American airborne actions on D-Day. Entry fees: Adult: 11,50€, Children: 7,50€
2 hours • Admission ticket free
8
Sainte-Mere-Eglise
Visit to Sainte-mère-église square and it's church. The story of the tragic arrival of American paratroopers on the night 5th/6th of June 1944 will be told there.
30 minutes • Admission ticket free
9
"La Fiere Bridge" was a site where American troops (mainly paratroopers) had a very hard fight against nazi forces from 6th to 9th of June 1944, causing more than 750 American casualties (wounded or killed) to keep this bridge in allied hands.
20 minutes • Admission ticket free
Day 2
Day 2: American Landing Sectors & Memorial sites
10 stops
10
Utah Beach
Utah beach was one of the two landing beaches used by American troops on D-Day. The units that arrived there joined the American paratroopers, who jumped inland during the night, to take control of the Cotentin peninsula roads and later Cherbourg harbor.
45 minutes • Admission ticket free
11
Pointe Du Hoc Memorial
Visit to the seafront German artillery position at Pointe du Hoc, assaulted from the cliffs by American Ranger battaillons on the morning of D-Day.
45 minutes • Admission ticket free
12
Lunch break at the "D Day House" restaurant, located at Omaha Beach.
1 hour • Admission ticket free
13
Visit to Saint-Laurent-sur-mer, to the first monument dedicated to the American troops who landed on Omaha beach, on the morning of June 6, 1944.
15 minutes • Admission ticket free
14
Visit to the site that was temporarily used as a cemetery for American soldiers killed on D-Day and in the following days.
10 minutes • Admission ticket free
15
Stop at the cliffs of Vierville-sur-mer, dominating Omaha beach. An opportunity to discover American military equipment displayed around the local museum, including American LCVP landing craft.
15 minutes • Admission ticket free
16
Normandy American Cemetery
Visit to the Normandy American Cemetery at Colleville-sur-mer. This exceptional memorial site is located on Omaha beach battlefield. An opportunity to discover the D-Day events from a place that was at the center of the battle that day.
1 hour 30 minutes • Admission ticket free
17
Visit to the reinforced WN62 German position. Located on the cliffs of Colleville-sur-mer dominating Omaha beach, we will discover, with some German soldiers' testimonies, what D-Day was like seen from that side of the battle. On the same site we will visit the monument dedicated to the American 1st Infantry Division.
1 hour • Admission ticket free
18
Walk on Omaha Beach to discover the view seen by the american troops landing on Omaha Beach.
45 minutes • Admission ticket free
19
Visit to the memorial monument dedicated to the landing troops from the American 29th Infantry Division who took part in the Omaha beach invasion, in the early hours of D-Day.
30 minutes • Admission ticket free

Additional info

• Wheelchair accessible
• Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
• Infants are required to sit on an adult’s lap
• Specialized infant seats are available
• Transportation options are wheelchair accessible
• Suitable for all physical fitness levels

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