Alsace: Audie Murphy & Colmar Pocket WWII Battlefield Tour

By On the Front Tours

Free cancellation available

Features

- Stand at Holtzwihr, where Audie Murphy won the Medal of Honour
- Explore seven Colmar Pocket battlefield sites with a specialist historian
- Set your own pace and ask questions on a private tour for your group
- Enjoy hotel pickup across the Alsace and Black Forest border region

Dates

Travellers

Language options: English

Starting time

Price details

€349.50 x 2 Travellers€699.00

Total

Until Sun, 15 Nov

Private specialist battlefield historian
Hotel pick-up and drop-off (Colmar, Strasbourg, Freiburg, Breisach, Mulhouse, Basel areas)
Private vehicle and all transport between battlefield sites
Then & Now' photographs and battlefield maps
Bottled water
Food and drinks
Service charge
Hotel or accommodation
Optional museum entry fees

- Not suitable for: Children under 11 years
- In accordance with EU regulations about consumer rights, activities services are not subject to the right of withdrawal. Supplier cancellation policy will apply.
- This activity is provided by a professional trader (a party acting within their trade, business or profession).

The Colmar Pocket is one of the great forgotten campaigns of the Western Front — and one of the most brutal. Between November 1944 and February 1945, the French First Army, with the US 3rd and 28th Infantry Divisions and 12th Armoured, fought village by village through the Alsace winter to destroy the German 19th Army and reach the Rhine. Four Medals of Honour were awarded.

This private, expert-led tour takes you through seven battlefield sites in chronological order. You begin at a 1940 Maginot casemate on the Rhine, follow the fighting through Sélestat, Kaysersberg, Sigolsheim and Bennwihr, stand at Holtzwihr where Lieutenant Audie Murphy made his Medal of Honour stand, and finish at Jebsheim — the “Alsatian Verdun,” where the Pocket finally broke.

Led by battlefield historian Matt Menneke, featured on National Geographic and the Discovery Channel, the tour connects each site into one clear storey. It's your group only, at your pace, with hotel pick-up across the Colmar, Strasbourg and Freiburg region. A grounded account of what happened here — and why it mattered.