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D-Day Discovery: The Longest Day, A 12 hour tour for 5-8 people
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Important Information
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Specialized infant seats are available
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Service animals allowed
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Suitable for all physical fitness levels
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Public transportation options are available nearby
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Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
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All areas and surfaces are wheelchair accessible
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Transportation options are wheelchair accessible
Cancellation policy
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
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For a full refund, you must cancel at least 24 hours before the experience’s start time.
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Cut-off times are based on the experience’s local time.
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If you cancel less than 24 hours before the experience’s start time, the amount you paid will not be refunded.
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This experience requires a minimum number of travelers. If it’s canceled because the minimum isn’t met, you’ll be offered a different date/experience or a full refund.
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Any changes made less than 24 hours before the experience’s start time will not be accepted.
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A D-Day tour for 5-8 people. Visit the Normandy landing beaches with our WWII expert. Rodolphe Rutman, who will bring to life the events of the battle of Normandy, using his knowledge of the subject acquired over more than 30 years of private research. He has been connected to the events of June 6 1944, since he was involved in the 50th anniversary of D-Day in 1994 when he assisted a group of 41 American veteran paratroopers who came to perform a commemorative jump near Sainte-mère-église. Afterwards, Rodolphe became a filmmaker specialising in history. He has directed 4 TV documentary films about D-Day which were broadcast internationally, including interviews with more than 200 people who ...
Highlights
12 hours
Offered in English & French
Free Cancellation
Mobile Ticket
12 hours
Offered in English & French
Free Cancellation
Mobile Ticket
What's Included
Bottled water
Lunch
Meeting Points
Departure
Gare de Bayeux
Our guide will be waiting at the vehicle in the parking area, holding a sign saying "D-Day Discovery Tour".
Return
D-Day Discovery: The Longest Day, A 12 hour tour for 5-8 people
Calvados
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A D-Day tour for 5-8 people. Visit the Normandy landing beaches with our WWII expert. Rodolphe Rutman, who will bring to life the events of the battle of Normandy, using his knowledge of the subject acquired over more than 30 years of private research. He has been connected to the events of June 6 1944, since he was involved in the 50th anniversary of D-Day in 1994 when he assisted a group of 41 American veteran paratroopers who came to perform a commemorative jump near Sainte-mère-église. Afterwards, Rodolphe became a filmmaker specialising in history. He has directed 4 TV documentary films about D-Day which were broadcast internationally, including interviews with more than 200 people who ...
Highlights
12 hours
Offered in English & French
Free Cancellation
Mobile Ticket
12 hours
Offered in English & French
Free Cancellation
Mobile Ticket
What's Included
Bottled water
Lunch
Meeting Points
Departure
Gare de Bayeux
Our guide will be waiting at the vehicle in the parking area, holding a sign saying "D-Day Discovery Tour".
Return
Itinerary
1
Sainte Mere Eglise
Visit to Sainte-mère-église square and it's church. The story of the tragic arrival of American paratroopers on the night 5th/6th of June 1944 will be told there.
45 minutes
2
Airborne Museum
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€
1 hour and 30 minutes
3
Sainte-Mere-Eglise
One hour can be spent in Sainte-mère-église square to do some shopping and to have lunch.
1 hour
4
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.
35 minutes
5
Utah Beach
Utah beach was one of the two landing beaches used by American troops on DDay. The units that arrived there will join the American paratroopers, who arrived inland during the night, to take control of the Cotentin peninsula roads and later Cherbourg harbor.
30 minutes
6
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.
1 hour
7
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.
15 minutes
8
Normandy American Cemetery
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 center of the battle that day.
1 hour
9
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.
1 hour
10
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.
10 minutes
11
Emplacement du 1er CIMETIÈRE US en Normandie
Visit to the site temporarily used as a cemetery for American soldiers killed on D-Day and in the following days.
15 minutes
12
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.
