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Day 1

• Pegasus Bridge – Stop: 60 minutes – Admission excluded. 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 story 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 – Stop: 20 minutes. Visit to the “Glider Marker 1 & Marker 2” memorial stones. The memorial stones mark the location where the gliders landed.
• Benouville – Stop: 15 minutes. 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 – Stop: 60 minutes. One hour can be spent in Benouville for lunch.
• Merville-Franceville-Plage – Stop: 90 minutes. 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.
• La Cambe German War Cemetery – Stop: 20 minutes. Visit to the cemetery where German soldiers, killed during the battle of Normandy in 1944, are buried.
• Sainte-Mere-Eglise – Stop: 2 hours. 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 are not included in the price of the tour.
• Sainte-Mère-Église – Stop: 30 minutes. Visit to Sainte-Mère-Église square and its church. The story of the tragic arrival of American paratroopers on the night of the 5th/6th of June 1944 will be told there.
• La Fiere Bridge and Iron Mike Monument – Stop: 20 minutes. “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

• Utah Beach – Stop: 45 minutes. 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 harbor.
• Pointe Du Hoc Memorial – Stop: 45 minutes. Visit to the seafront German artillery position at Pointe du Hoc, assaulted from the cliffs by American Ranger battalions on the morning of D-Day.
• D-DAY House – Restaurant Bar – Stop: 60 minutes. Lunch break at the “D Day House” restaurant, located at Omaha Beach. Not included in the price of the tour.
• Omaha Beach Memorial – Stop: 15 minutes. 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.
• Site of the first American Cemetery in Normandy – Stop: 10 minutes. 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: 15 minutes. Stop at the cliffs of Vierville-sur-mer, dominating Omaha Beach. An opportunity to discover American military equipment displayed around the local museum.
• Normandy American Cemetery – Stop: 90 minutes. 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.
• WN 62 (Widerstandsnest 62) – Stop: 60 minutes. Visit to the reinforced WN62 German position. Located on the cliffs of Colleville-sur-mer, dominating Omaha Beach. Here 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 White – Stop: 45 minutes. Walk on Omaha Beach to discover the view seen by the American troops landing on Omaha Beach.
• The soldiers 29th Division’s Memorial – Stop: 30 minutes. 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.

Additional Information

• These are private tours only: your party will not be mixed with other guests
• Comfortable shoes and weather-appropriate clothing are recommended
• Normandy weather can change quickly; tours operate in normal rain or wind conditions
• Respectful attire and behavior are required at all memorial sites
• Children are welcome; booster seats can be provided on request
• Tour content can be tailored to follow a relative’s unit or personal family history when information is shared in advance

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