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Itinerary for: D-Day Landings in Normandy  (4FDNV/1 )

France Normandy
Battlefields


4 and 5-Day Break



  • Day 1 – Local departure by coach then to Normandy for a three or four-night stay.

  • Day 2 – The British Sector (included). We begin in the British Sector, studying some of the initial landings by the brave 6th Airborne Divison, visiting Pegasus Bridge, heroically taken by Major John

    Howard and his men – see Café Gondré and the Pegasus Memorial Museum. We then pay our respects at Ranville Commonwealth Cemetery and at Bréville Ridge, an important sector of high ground. Our guide tells the story of the battles for the eastern flank and the battles for Caen. Prior to time for lunch in Ouistreham, we visit the Merville Gun Battery, which was disarmed at great cost by the 9th Battalion of the Parachute Regiment under the brilliant command of Lt. Col. Terence Otway D.S.O. in the early hours of 6 June. It is now a superbly restored Museum. In the afternoon we visit Sword Beach where the British 3rd infantry division, accompanied by commandos, landed. B

    • (4-day break only) We conclude the day at Arromanches, with its fine Mulberry Harbour Museum.

    • (5-day break only) On this day we then visit the Grand Bunker Museum at Ouistreham before moving onto the German underground defensive bunkers codenamed ‘Hillman’



  • Day 3 – The American Sector (included). We enter the highly emotive American Sector, visiting the American Cemetery overlooking tragic Omaha Beach, and the beach itself, walking in the footsteps of these brave young men. We also visit the Airborne Museum in Ste. Mère Église, the scene of some of the tragic landings of the U.S. Paras, the Screaming Eagles and the All-Americans. In the afternoon we see Utah Beach where the U.S. Infantry landed to link with the Paratroopers to secure the Cherbourg

    peninsula and make a stop at the German Peace Garden Cemetery, where 21,000 fallen from the Normandy Campaign are buried. Before returning to our hotel we also visit the headland of Pointe du Hoc,

    courageously taken by the American Rangers. B 

    • (4-day break only) On this day we also include a visit to see the huge guns at the Battery at Longues-sur-Mer.



  • Day 4 – (5-day break only) British & Canadian Sector (included). On this day we return to the British/Canadian Sector looking at Juno and Gold Beaches. We spend time on the Landing beaches visiting memorials and studying some of the beach defences, with a stop at Courseulles the centre of

    operations for Juno Beach. We then move on to Gold Beach landing area, where we are able to hear the story of the only Victoria Cross of D-Day won by CSM Stan Hollis, following his story inland to the

    Mulberry Harbour museum. From Arromanches we move on to the preserved German coastal battery at

    Longues-sur-Mer where you will be able to see the guns and Command Post featured in the film ‘The Longest Day’. We conclude our day with a visit to the Commonwealth war Graves Cemetery at Bayeux. B

  • Day 4 (4-day break) or Day 5 (5-day break) – To Calais and return home. B


Included Meals: B=Breakfast


Entrance fees to museums and places of interest are at extra cost 


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Prices are per person, based on two sharing