Itinerary

1. Memorial de Caen - 360 Circular Cinema - Normandy American Cemetery - Overlord Museum - Omaha Beach - Pointe du Hoc

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   Memorial de Caen - 360 Circular Cinema - Normandy American Cemetery - Overlord Museum - Omaha Beach - Pointe du Hoc

   
   

2. 07:30 Hotel Pick up and departure destination Caen

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   07:30 Pick up from Your hotel in Paris and departure destination Caen by our air conditioned comfortable Mercedes E220 business-class car by 2 people or by Mercedes minivan from 3 participants.It takes about 3 hours (240 km) to reach the Memorial of Caen.One stop at the rest area will be made.This trip is Live guided.

   
   

3. 10:30 - 12:00 The Caen Memorial and Museum visit

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   10:30 - 12:00  The Caen Memorial and Museum visit, located in the British Sword Beach sector.Caen Museum is the best World War II museum in France.You will get an overview of the Battle of Normandy as well the sense of the personal lives of the people who took part in it.An excellent 19-minute film documents this battle with original historic footage. 

   12:00 Departure to Arromanches-les-Bains.It takes about 0,5 hour (30 km) on the national roads crossing beautiful countryside and small villages.

   
   

4. 12:30 - 13:30 Lunch break and visit of Arromanches-les-Bains town

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   12:30 - 13:30 Lunch break and visit of Arromanches-les-Bains town.Arromanches is a small seaside town famous for its former artificial Mulberry Harbour.Located in the center of the British Gold Beach landing zone it played an invaluable role in the D-Day landings.The Allies built here an artificial temporary harbour for unloading of vehicles, materials, and people.Mulberry Harbour had, by June 12, 1944, helped bring 300,000 men, 54,000 vehicles, and 104,000 tons of supplies to Europe.

   
   

5. 13:30 - 14:30 "360* Circular Cinema" visit

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   13:30 - 14:30 "360* Circular Cinema" visit.It is located on the top of the hill with the best Viewpoint over the bay of the former artificial harbour.You will watch a very impressive documentary bout 100 days of the Battle of Normandy learning in details Operation Overlord. 

   14:30 Departure to the Normandy American Cemetery & Visitor Center.It is just half an hour drive (20 km).

   
   

6. 15:00 - 16:10 Normandy American Cemetery visit

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   15:00 - 16:10  Normandy American Cemetery & Visitor Center visit, located in Colleville-sur-Mer and overlooking Omaha Beach.It contains 9,387 U.S.soldiers, most of whom were killed during the Normandy Landings and the Wall of the Missing with the names of 1,557 soldiers missing in action.The cliffs leading down to the beaches contain the remnants of the German defences, including concrete casemates with memorials to the soldiers.At Normandy American Cemetery you’ll see as well the semicircular memorial colonnade with the sculpture “Spirit of American Youth Rising from the Waves” and large maps of military operations; and the most beautiful, idyllic spot on Planet Earth.At the Visitors Center You will find a very nice small Museum with a lot of informations about Battle of Normandy. 

   16:10 Departure to the close located Overlord Museum.

   
   

7. 16:15 - 16:45 Overlord Museum visit

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   16:15 - 16:45 Overlord Museum visit.Located just few hundred meters from the Normandy American Cemetery this museum contains many WW2 artefacts and installations like tanks, weapons, guns, many military vehicles, V-1 missile, personal belongings and more.It gives You a personal feeling about D-Day. 

   16:45 Departure to Omaha Beaches.It takes just 5 to 10 minutes (5 km).

   
   

8. 16:50 - 17:20 Omaha Beach

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   16:50 - 17:20 Arrival at Omaha Beach.Learn about the huge sacrifice made by the 34 000 men who landed here on D-Day.Omaha Beach is the most popular travellers destination of the D-Day Beaches. 

   17:20 Departure to Pointe du Hoc.I takes 15 minutes (10 km).

   
   

9. 17:30 - 18:30 Pointe du Hoc visit

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   17:30 - 18:30 Arrival at Pointe du Hoc, a prominent cliff between Utah and Omaha Beach.This point was important because it was the highest land between Omaha and Utah beaches and could thus fire upon both of them.The site was a gun battery, fortified with concrete casemates and gun pits, forming part of Hitler’s Atlantic Wall defences.Visiting the Pointe du Hoc You will learn about the 2nd Ranger battalion sacrifice to take this crucial gun battery on the cliffs of Omaha Beach on June 6th 1944.Many of the original fortifications and bunkers remain on the site and are open to the public, including the fire control casemate, on top of which there is a monument to the 2nd Ranger Battalion. 

   18:30 Departure to Baxeux.It takes about 0,5 hours (32 km).

   
   

10. 19:00 Arrival in Bayeux.Hotel accommodation.

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    19:00 Arrival in Bayeux.Hotel accommodation.

    
    

11. Overnight at a 3* /4* Hotel in Bayeux

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    Overnight at a 3* /4* Hotel in Bayeux

    
    

12. Utah Beach - Utah Beach Landing Museum - Sainte-Mere-Eglise - Airborne Museum

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    Utah Beach - Utah Beach Landing Museum - Sainte-Mere-Eglise - Airborne Museum

    
    

13. 08:00 Departure from Bayeux to Church Saint-Come-et-Saint-Damien

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    08:00  Departure from Bayeux to Church Saint-Come-et-Saint-Damien in Angoville-au-Plain.It takes 40 minutes (50 km).

    
    

14. 08:40 - 09:00 Short stop at Church Saint-Come-et-Saint-Damien in Angoville-au-Plain

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    08:40 - 09:00 Short stop at Church Saint-Come-et-Saint-Damien in Angoville-au-Plain.During the D-Day two Medics Medics Robert Wright and Kennith Moore from the 101st Airborne set up a field hospital in the little church.They provided medical assistance to 80 combatants of both sides and one child.They used the pews of the church as hospital beds and, incredibly there are still blood stains on the church pews.Several Germans stormed through the door of the church, but seeing that the medics were treating wounded from both sides they quietly left and marked the door with a Red Cross. 

    09:00 Departure to the Utah Beach Landing Museum.It takes about 10 minutes (10 km).

    
    

15. 09:10 - 10:00  Utah Beach and its Monuments

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    09:10 - 10:00 Arrival at Utah Beach.Free time for learning on Utah Beach.Utah Beach is the next to Omaha Beach and the westernmost of the Five Normandy D-Day Beaches containing nowadays many museums, memorials and monuments.Utah Beach was the first beach to be stormed by 23,000 American soldiers on 6 June 1944 in order to capture the town of Cherbourg and its deep water port. 

    Utah Beach casualties were relatively light with 197 (including 60 missing).The units that landed on Utah Beach include: 82nd Airborne Division, 101st Airborne Division, VII Corps, 4th Infantry Division, 90th Infantry Division, 4th Cavalry Regiment and 70th Tank Battalion. 

    Near the UTAH BEACH Landing Museum You can discover many important monuments.Normandy’s Utah Beaches are wide and clear and make it easy to imagine the events of 1944.You can spend here some time strolling the beach, thinking about the events of WW2.

    
    

16. 10:00 - 12:00 Utah Beach Landing Museum

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    10:00 - 12:00 Visit at Utah Beach Landing Museum, created atop a former German bunker.Having a big collection of historical artifacts, military vehicles and the original B26 bomber—one of only six left in existence. 

    12:00 Departure to Sainte-Mère-Église town and Airborne Museum.It takes just 20 minutes (13 km).

    
    

17. 12:20 - 12:50 Short stop in Sainte-Mère-Église.Milestone of freedom.

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    12:20 - 12:50 Short stop in Sainte-Mère-Église in front of the Airborne Museum. 

    Sainte-Mère-Église is a small town in Normandy which played a significant part in the WW2 because of its position.In the early morning of 6 June 1944, mixed units of the U.S.82nd and U.S.101st Airborne Divisions occupied the town in Mission Boston, making it one of the first towns liberated in the invasion. 

    John Steele Story.You will learn here the story about paratrooper John Steele of the 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment (PIR) and other members of 82 Div.John Steele was this figure that inspired the film "The Longest Day", shot in the village in 1961.Thanks to this cult film starring John Wayne, Henry Fonda and Sean Connery, this moment has been immortalised.In tribute to this soldier, a mannequin is still in place on the church steeple. 

    Milestone of freedom. The Borne 00 marks the spot where General Theodore Roosevelt Jr.landed and decided to lead the assault from.

    
    

18. 12:50 - 13:50 Lunch break in Sainte-Mère-Église

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    12:50 - 13:50  Lunch break in Sainte-Mère-Église in front of the Airborne Museum.

    
    

19. 14:00 - 15:30 Airborne museum.

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    14:00  - 15:30 Arrival at Airborne museum.This visitors of Normandy favourite museum is dedicated to the U.S.paratroopers of the 82nd and 101st Airborne Divisions.The Airborne Museum comprises five separate buildings, two of which resemble open parachutes.Inside you’ll find an incredible collection of World War II aircraft and thanks to the touch pad You will experience the highlights of the Normandy landings. 

    The first WACO building of the Museum is dedicated to the gliders and presents the only copy of a WACO glider in France.You will join a dozen soldiers in the glider few moments before the take off.More than 500 gliders were deployed to carriy on About 4 400 soldiers, vehicles, ammunitions and other equipments. 

    The C-47 building with the original legendary C-47 aircraft sits proudly at the centre of a spectacular scenography made of deployed parachutes, suspended mannequins and realistic statues that question the visitor!

    
    

20. 15:30 - 16:00 Experience D-Day Night Jumps of a C-47 aircraft as if you were there !

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    15:30 - 16:00 Experience D-Day Night Jumps of a C-47 aircraft as if you were there ! Through a hyperrealist museography You can join the nighttime embarkation of a C-47 aircraft in England, then drop into the square of Sainte-Mère-Eglise in the midst of the fighting and take part in the operations that followed.Finally you will discover an American reconnaissance plane: a Piper Cub.Get into the minds of the troopers and feel the intensity of the combat. 

    16:00  Departure Paris.It takes 3,5 to 4 hours (320 km).One stop at the rest area will be made.

    
    

21. 20:00 Arrival in Paris

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    20:00 Arrival in Paris depending on traffic situation and Your hotel location.Drop off at Your hotel.