TOUR A-2 : OMAHA BEACH SECTOR (Afternoon Tour)
This complete tour of the Omaha Beach sector will allow you to understand the difficulties facing the American troops who assaulted this part of the Normandy coast. Because of the huge losses suffered by the 1st and 29th Infantry Divisions during the landing, this beach earned its infamous nickname “Bloody Omaha”. As well as this, you will see the impressive long-range fortified heavy gun battery that was on the western side of the beach at Pointe du Hoc, capable of inflicting great damage on the Allied forces. You will also experience the American Cemetery where the young soldiers who died for their country and for the freedom of Western Europe are buried at Colleville-sur-Mer overlooking Omaha Beach itself. The tour will end with the visit of the Longues sur Mer gun battery where the 152mm artillery guns can still be seen.
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TOUR B-2 : SWORD BEACH SECTOR + BRITISH AIRBORNE (Afternoon Tour)
This tour retraces the main assaults undertaken by the British forces during the first few days of the Battle of Normandy on the eastern side of the Operation Overlord. In addition to the landing in Ouistreham on Sword Beach, you will also visit the famous site of Pegasus Bridge, captured just after midnight on D-Day by elements of the 6th Airborne Division and the Hillman Bunker complex located near Colleville-Montgomery, the town named after the British Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery in his honour. You will also honor some of those who lost their lives in Normandy visiting one of the too numerous Commonwealth Cemeteries. The tour will be completed by the visit of the Museum of the Battery of Merville, true reconstitution of the German gun Battery which was neutralized by the men of Lieutenant Colonel Otway.
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TOUR C-2 : JUNO BEACH SECTOR (Afternoon Tour)
Just before 8 o’clock in the morning of June 6 1944, 21 400 soldiers, of whom 14 000 were Canadian, under the command of General KELLER, landed on Juno Beach. Re-live the pitiless battles fought by the 3rd Canadian Infantry Division in the different villages between the beaches and the town of Caen and visit those who remain here buried in the soil of France, in the military cemeteries where these soldiers are honoured.
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