Explore Juno Beach or La Pointe du Hoc, iconic D-Day sites Discover Arromanches, the heart of the Allied landings Free time for lunch amidst history: Arromanches or Omaha Beach Pay tribute at the American Cemetery of Colleville-sur-Mer D-Day expert: your licensed guide reveals every historical...
We stopped at the Utah beach museum, lunch, cider tasting, and the Americans Normandy cemetery overlooking Omaha beach. You don't have a lot of time at each stop since it's a 4 hour drive from Paris one way, but I was aware of that going in t...
D-Day Beach Landings On the first day over 156,000 men were landed on a front of thirty miles. It was the largest and most powerful armada that has ever sailed. Sergeant Thomas Valence landed at Omaha: "I was the rifle sergeant and followed Lieutenant Anderson off the boat, and we did...
American Landing Sectors2 Days 18 hours tour American Airborne Battleground in Normandy2 Days Utah Beach, major sites of the american D-Day tours The Church. The parachute and John Steele mannequin. Sainte-Mère-Église One of the most disastrous drops (in a night filled with disasters) occurr...
D-Day Landing Beaches (See Main Article: The Five Beaches (Juno, Omaha, Sword, Gold, Utah) Landing On The Beaches: Listen to the full “History Unplugged” podcast! Gold Beach A ten-mile stretch between Omaha Beach to the west and Juno to the east, Gold was divided into sectors ...
Guided tours of Omaha and Juno beach Guided tour of la Pointe du Hoc Join us on a small group excursion (maximum 15 participants) from Paris to the emblematic sites of the Normandy landing, accompanied by a guide-interpreter. On June 6, 1944, called "D Day", the Allies opened a new ...
Second World War — German Prisoners taken by Canadian troops at Juno Beach, D-Day, during the invasion of Europe, on June 6, 1944. Photo by FRANK L. DUBERVILL /THE CANADIAN PRESS Getting the beaches added to the list of UNESCO World Heritage sites conveys a number of benef...
Longues-sur-Meris a small village near the edge of the very high bluffs just west of Arromanches. The high of the bluffs there make it a poor place for a landing, it was between the American Omaha Beach and the British Gold Beach. But that height makes it an excellent place for artille...
You’ll visit Pointe du Hoc, the Normandy American Cemetery, Omaha Beach, and more. A private tour gives you the freedom to customize your sightseeing Discover many of Normandy’s key D-Day landmarks, all in one day Round-trip transit from your Le Havre or Honfleur port or hotel...
Landing craft and a fleet of protection vessels approach Omaha Beach. By midnight, the troops had secured their beachheads and moved further inland. Corbis/Getty Images British troops reach the shore in the early morning. According to the Royal British Legion, the phrase D-Day was used fairly ...