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Day 1 • Flight to LondonGuests schedule their overnight flights to London.
Day 2 • LondonCheck into the hotel where the entire group will gather for an evening welcome reception. Our historian will treat us to our first lecture, with introductions all around.
Day 3 • LondonThe morning city tour will focus on WWII London. We see historic places around the city that were significant during the war as well as traditional points of interest such as Houses of Parliament, Westminster Abbey and Tower Bridge. We will visit the Churchill War Rooms, the underground nerve center of Britain’s war effort, and the Imperial War Museum which exhibits authentic examples of WWII weaponry and WWI trench warfare. There is also the option of seeing St. Paul’s Cathedral and the chapel that houses the book listing every airman killed while stationed in England.
Day 4 • PortsmouthDepart for Portsmouth, the seaside town that became the staging center for the D-Day invasion. Here the Allies assembled the armies and equipment for the massive undertaking. Besides the hundreds of thousands of men, there were thousands of armored vehicles and the assemblage of sea vessels: landing craft of all kinds in addition to warships that made up the flotilla for the English Channel crossing. Nearby, General Dwight D. Eisenhower set up the advance command post of Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force, where he, Naval Commander Ramsay, Army Commander Montgomery and staff would meet to plan the invasion.
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Day 5 • NormandyFollowing breakfast we take the cross-channel ferry to Normandy. After arrival, we visit Ste-Mere-Église where Airborne troops descended on D-Day. Here we explore the village and the iconic church memorialized by John Steele’s steeple landing. We also visit nearby La Fiere Bridge where the 82nd Airborne successfully
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delayed a German Panzer counter-attack.
Day 6 • Normandy After breakfast at the hotel, our tour begins where the first shots were fired, at the crucial Pegasus Bridge. Our historian will describe the taking of this key crossing.Then we pass the British and Canadian Beaches, Sword, Juno and Gold on the way to the guns at Longues-sur-Mer, the battery against which HMS Ajax scored perhaps the most accurate (and perhaps the luckiest) hit of the war. We’ll see the evidence that remains.
Day 7 • NormandyWe’ll spend the morning at Omaha Beach where the Americans took the German fortifications after a stupendous fight. Losses were especially high in the first wave of landings. Today the American Cemetery stretches along the bluff. We will study the battlefield; cross the beach, analyze the maps and imagine the courage that saved our freedom that day. We will also pay our respects (at the hundreds of crosses and stars of David) to the deceased.
Point-du-Hoc is a sheer cliff some forty meters high where the elite Ranger Force scaled the German breastworks on D-Day. We will spend part of the morning there, trying to fathom how they did it. In the afternoon, we’ll visit Ste.-Mere-Eglise, taken by the American Airborne on D-Day, and hear the stories of the veterans who took it. After, we’ll stop at the Paratrooper Museum.
Upon return to the hotel, we will gather one last time for dinner as a group and bid farewell to Normandy
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Tour Includes:• ItinerarydesignedbyDr.StephenE.Ambrose
•Fulltimehistorianandlogisticalescort•Three-andfour-staraccommodations•Roomswithprivatebathorshower,hoteltaxes,porterageandservicecharges
• Touringbyprivatefirstclassair-conditionedmotorcoach
•7breakfasts,5dinnersandaWelcomeReception
•ChannelcrossingtoNormandyviaferry•Allentrancefeestomuseumsandattractions
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and this wonderful campaign into history.
Day 8 • ParisWe drive through the lush, scenic countryside of Normandy and northern France on the way to Paris, the City of Light.
We arrive in Paris this afternoon. The Allies, preceded by Free French troops, symbolically reclaimed the French capital from the Nazis in August 1944. As did the American troops on leave, you may explore the city on your own. Some possible visits are the Eiffel Tower, Les Invalides, which houses Napoleon’s tomb, Notre Dame cathedral, the Tuilleries and the Louvre. There is also a Seine River dinner cruise option. The evening is free.
Day 9 • HomeAfter breakfast, one group airport transfer will be provided to the Paris Charles De Gaulle Airport (CDG).
