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       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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