D-Day Discovery: American & British sectors, 2-Day Tour for 1-4 P

Soldiers disembarking from a landing craft onto a beach. 1

A statue of a soldier with a rifle, wearing a helmet and a jacket. 2

By Remember: Discover D Day

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Free cancellation available
2d
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Selective hotel pickup
Multiple languages

Overview

Led by Rodolphe Rutman - a French documentary filmmaker and WWII historian - this 2-day tour « D-Day Discovery Tour » offers a powerful, in-depth experience you won't find anywhere else. Rodolphe has written and directed historical documentaries broadcast on France 2, France 5, ARTE, Odyssee, ZDF and ARD in Germany, including “Big Red Omaha”,“Destins Croisés”, “Notre père ce héros”, “Les sanglots longs…“, …all documentary films focused on the Normandy landings. His storytelling expertise brings each site to life with rich detail and personal accounts.This is more than a battlefield tour—it's a moving, expert-led narrative, honouring the courage and sacrifices of the allied men and women (military and resistance fighters), and revealing their individual and collective roles in the liberation of Normandy. Book now and step into history with a guide who brings the past vividly to life.

Activity location

Pegasus Bridge
- avenue Major John Howard,
- 14860, Ranville, France

Meeting/Redemption Point

Pegasus Bridge
- avenue Major John Howard,
- 14860, Ranville, France

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Dates

Travellers

D-Day Discovery: American & British sectors, 2-Day Tour for 1-4 P in Multilingual

2d
Opening hours: Sun 10:00-19:00
English

Pickup included

Languages available

Price details

€790.00 x 2 Travellers€1,580.00

Total

What's included, what's not

Bottled water
Pegasus Memorial Museum - Adults 9€50 (The ticket should be purchased directly at the museum due to ticket availability)
Pegasus Memorial Museum - Children & Students 6€

Know before you book

- Infants are required to sit on an adult’s lap
- Specialised infant seats are available
- Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
- Transport options are wheelchair accessible
- Wheelchair accessible
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
- 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 private individual (a party not acting within their trade, business or profession). EU consumer law will not apply to your booking.

Activity itinerary

Day 1: Day 1: German Defence, British & American Airborne actions on D-Day.

9 stops
Meals: Not included
Accommodation: Not included

Pegasus Bridge

1h
Admission ticket not included

Arrival at the Pegasus Bridge Memorial at 10:30 a.m. This museum recounts the events that took place on the night of June 5-6, 1944, around the Bénouville bridge. It tells the storey of the capture of this bridge by British commandos who arrived by air in gliders. The action was swift and the bridge was renamed “Pegasus Bridge” in 1945 by the authors of this glorious and spectacular episode of D-Day.

Benouville

Visit to the “Glider Marker 1 & Marker 2” memorial stones. The memorial stones mark the location where the gliders landed.

Benouville

Visit to Café Gondrée. This café went down in history as the first house in France to be liberated by the Allied forces on June 6, 1944.

Benouville

One hour can be spent in Benouville for lunch.

Merville-Franceville-Plage

1h 30m

Merville Battery Museum. This reinforced German position was an artillery position on the “Atlantic Wall.” A visit here provides insight into the coastal defence systems deployed by German forces to prevent an invasion by Allied armies from the sea. Visitors can also learn about the lifestyle of the German occupation troops. A visit to the Merville Battery will also provide insight into the assault on this position on the night of June 5-6, 1944, by British paratroopers from the 6th Airborne Division, who arrived by air.

Cimetiere Militaire Allemand de La Cambe

Visit to the cemetery where German soldiers, killed during the battle of Normandy in 1944, are buried.

Sainte-Mere-Eglise

Visit to the Airborne museum, a very well furnished museum with a lot of interesting pictures, maps and military equipment giving an overview of the American airborne actions on D-Day. Entry fees: Adult: 11,50€, Children: 7,50€

Sainte-Mere-Eglise

Visit to Sainte-mère-église square and it's church. The storey of the tragic arrival of American paratroopers on the night 5th/6th of June 1944 will be told there.

La Fiere Bridge and Iron Mike Monument

"La Fiere Bridge" was a site where American troops (mainly paratroopers) had a very hard fight against nazi forces from 6th to 9th of June 1944, causing more than 750 American casualties (wounded or killed) to keep this bridge in allied hands.

Day 2: Day 2: American Landing Sectors & Memorial sites

10 stops
Meals: Not included
Accommodation: Not included

Utah Beach

Utah beach was one of the two landing beaches used by American troops on D-Day. The units that arrived there joined the American paratroopers, who jumped inland during the night, to take control of the Cotentin peninsula roads and later Cherbourg harbour.

Pointe Du Hoc Memorial

Visit to the seafront German artillery position at Pointe du Hoc, assaulted from the cliffs by American Ranger battaillons on the morning of D-Day.

D-DAY House - Restaurant Bar

Lunch break at the "D Day House" restaurant, located at Omaha Beach.

Omaha Beach Memorial

Visit to Saint-Laurent-sur-mer, to the first monument dedicated to the American troops who landed on Omaha beach, on the morning of June 6, 1944.

Emplacement du 1er CIMETIÈRE US en Normandie

Visit to the site that was temporarily used as a cemetery for American soldiers killed on D-Day and in the following days.

D-Day Omaha Museum

Stop at the cliffs of Vierville-sur-mer, dominating Omaha beach. An opportunity to discover American military equipment displayed around the local museum, including American LCVP landing craft.

Normandy American Cemetery

1h 30m

Visit to the Normandy American Cemetery at Colleville-sur-mer. This exceptional memorial site is located on Omaha beach battlefield. An opportunity to discover the D-Day events from a place that was at the centre of the battle that day.

WN 62 (Widerstandsnest 62)

Visit to the reinforced WN62 German position. Located on the cliffs of Colleville-sur-mer dominating Omaha beach, we will discover, with some German soldiers' testimonies, what D-Day was like seen from that side of the battle. On the same site we will visit the monument dedicated to the American 1st Infantry Division.

Omaha Beach Dog Green

Walk on Omaha Beach to discover the view seen by the american troops landing on Omaha Beach.

Mémorial The soldiers 29th Division's

Visit to the memorial monument dedicated to the landing troops from the American 29th Infantry Division who took part in the Omaha beach invasion, in the early hours of D-Day.

Location

Activity location

Pegasus Bridge
- avenue Major John Howard,
- 14860, Ranville, France

Meeting/Redemption Point

Pegasus Bridge
- avenue Major John Howard,
- 14860, Ranville, France

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