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BATTLEFIELD TOURS IN EUROPE OPERATED BY
LEGER HOLIDAYS
D-Day Landings in Normandy
Join our specialist guides on an awe-inspiring journey learning about 4 or 5 Days from £349
the Normandy landings, a turning point in WW2, on this impressive Departures
tour. Apr to Jul 2021
Thiepval Memorial
Juno Beach Tiger Tank, Vimoutiers
KEY VISITS Day 1 Local departure by coach or Home Winters commanded Easy Company of 506th
• Pegasus Bridge Memorial Museum Connect service, then to Caen in Normandy for Parachute Infantry Regiment, otherwise known
a three or four-night stay. as the ‘Band of Brothers’. At Utah Beach we
• D-Day landing beaches follow the story of the successful landings and
Includes Day 2 Day 2 - Britain’s D-Day: Pegasus visit the Utah Beach Museum. We then end
Bridge and British Beaches We start at
• 3 or 4 nights hotel with continental Pegasus Bridge, the scene of the first actions the day at the German Cemetery at La Cambe,
breakfast of D-Day, where Airborne troops stormed where German Tank Ace Michael Wittmann is
• Specialist Battlefield Guide the position from gliders and held on until the buried. B
• Key visits as described linkup with ground forces from Sword Beach Day 4 (5-day break) Battle of the Bocage:
Falaise Gap We start our look at the fighting
was made. We see where the gliders landed,
• Porterage at the hotel
take a visit to the Pegasus Bridge Museum beyond D-Day in the bocage countryside south
• Local joining points and see the Gondrée Café. In Ranville we see of Bayeux. We examine the bloody battles
(see pages 6 & 7 for your nearest) the Airborne graves and after lunch, proceed for Tilly-sur-Seulles and the tough fighting
YOUR HOTEL on to the British landing beaches, starting at at Fontenay-le-Pesnel. Driving through the
so-called ‘Scottish Corridor’ over the River
Sword Beach. At Juno Beach we visit the Juno
You will stay for three or four nights at a Beach Centre which explains the story of the Odon, we visit Hill 112 with its Churchill Tank
minimum 2-star hotel in the Caen area. Canadian role in the Battle of Normandy, and Memorial. Lunch in Falaise, followed by a visit
at Gold Beach, see where some of the heaviest to the Falaise Pocket and a short walk along
casualties were suffered by British troops the ‘Corridor of Death’, used by the Germans
storming the tough defences at Asnelles. to make their retreat in August 1944. On Mont
We end the day at Arromanches where the Ormel we visit the Polish Memorial to their
Mulberry Harbour was constructed, much of ferocious battle and end the day by seeing a
which is still visible out to sea. B very rare original Tiger I tank at Vimoutiers. B
Day 3 America’s D-Day: Bloody Omaha Day 4 (4-day break) or Day 5 (5-day break)
and American Airborne Today we hear Return home. B
the story of ‘Bloody Omaha’ and the terrible Included Meals: B=Breakfast
American sacrifice on D-Day. Uncover the real
story with a visit to the Normandy American 4-DAY BREAK:
Cemetery, the Overlord Museum and Omaha Tour Code: W4FDN
Beach where the landings took place, seeing Apr 9 2021 £349 Jun 25 2021 £369
Arromanches the memorial to the 29th Division. After 5-DAY BREAK:
lunch in St. Mère Église, we then take a look
Entrance to museums, places of interest and ptional excursions at the story of the US Airborne forces at the Tour Code: W5FDN
are at extra cost.
Extras: single room supplement from £105 (4-days), £119 (5-days). Richard Winters Leadership Memorial. Dick May 24 2021 £429 Jul 5 2021 £439
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