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Outstanding.
My grateful thanks to you Ian
for the wonderful surprises you gave me last year on the Normandy trip,
my prayers
were answered. My thanks also go to Gordon and Ray. Looking forward to
this years Normandy trip. Keep up the good work.
I just wanted to let you know what a
wonderful time we had
on the Normandy tour. I have listened to my mother talk about my uncle
and where he died ever since I can remember. It meant
so much to be able to visit him with her. She'll never forget
it and neither will I. In fact
I have already started saving
for the next one.
World War II Battlefield Tours – 2008
The tour list gives the full index of all of our battlefield tours, pilgrimage tours and war graves tours for both World War I, World War II and other notable battles and conflicts. Expanded details of all battlefield tours are also available in our brochure, contact us for a copy.
World War 2 –
Dunkirk, Ypres and the V2 Rocket Sites
Dover Castle, Underground Hospital and Dunkirk Control
Centre
31st May – 3rd June
4 Days, 3 Nights
£399.00
This tour offers an unusual mixture of First and Second World War. It
starts with visits to Wormhout and Esquelbec, where we cover the infamous
story of the massacre on the road to Dunkirk. Followed by a visit to the
Memorial erected by the Dunkirk Veterans Association beside the site of
the massacre, and the cemetery where many are buried. We also visit Creton
Farm, at Le Paradis, scene of another massacre by the German SS troops,
of 97 soldiers of the Royal Norfolk and other Regiments, seeing the poignant
memorial erected to them, and visiting the village cemetery where they
are buried.
We will be visiting the Dunkirk Cemetery and
Memorial to the Missing, where we will have our Service of Remembrance,
followed by a visit to Dunkirk and De-Panne to see the Beaches and Memorials.
We will visit the V2 Rocket Bases at the La Coupole
and Eperlecques, before making our way across to Belgium, to visit the
First World War Battlefields. We will also be making Special Visits during
the day, and at 8.00 p.m. we will be attending the Last Post Ceremony
at the Menin Gate in Ypres. On our final day we will return to the Port
of Calais and our crossing back to England, where we visit Dover Castle,
the Secret Wartime Tunnels, the Underground Hospital, and the Control
Centre from which the evacuation of Dunkirk was controlled.
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World War 2 – Famous Raids Tour
Dieppe, Bruneval, Amiens Prison, with a visit to La Coupole V2 Rocket Site
25th – 29th April
5 Days, 4 Nights
£499.00
Our first day is spent traveling out from the UK. We then spend the next day visiting the scene of the abortive and costly Canadian Raid on Dieppe on the 19th August 1942. We'll inspect the Red and White Beaches in front of the town and then visit the sites of the German batteries above. We then go on to view the beaches at Berneval and Quiberville where British commandos covered the flanks of the main attack. It will also be possible to make Special Visits to the cemeteries in the area.
We will then make the short drive to St. Valery-en-Caux, where the 51st Highland Division was forced to surrender to General Rommel on the 12th June 1940. Bad weather combined with German airpower prevented the Royal Navy coming to the rescue of the Division. We then drive on to the scene of the famous Bruneval Raid, at the secret Radar Station, before returning to our hotel.
The next day sees us covering the epic attack on Amiens Prison (Operation Jericho), led by Wing Commander Pickard, to release the resistance workers incarcerated in the prison. We will see the bomb damage to the walls, Pickard's crash site and his last resting place, and follow the story of the escapees through the Somme region.
On our final day we will visit the V2 Rocket site at La Coupole at St. Omer before our afternoon ferry home.
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World War 2 – Normandy Beaches, Operation Overlord, 64rd Anniversary Tour
4th – 8th June
5 Days, 4 Nights
£499.00
Our first night of this tour is spent in Rouen and Special Visits to St.
Sever cemetery at Rouen are possible. The following morning we depart for
a tour of the southern Normandy Battlefields, visiting Vimoutieres, the
Falaise Pocket and Hill 112.
We then base ourselves in the Caen area for 3
nights, and take in visits to the landing beaches of the British, Commonwealth
and American Forces. We spend a day covering the American involvement,
visiting Utah and ('Bloody') Omaha Beaches, Ste. Mere Eglise – with
its famous Church on which US paratrooper John Steele landed – and
Pont Du Hoc – where Col. James Rudder and his Rangers scaled the
sheer cliffs.
We will include a visit the very poignant American
Cemetery at Omaha Beach and spend a day covering the British and Commonwealth
landing and dropping zones, visiting, Arromanches, Gold, Juno and Sword
Beaches and following the advance inland. Special Visits can be made to
cemeteries in the area.
We also visit Bayeux Cemetery and Museum, Pegasus
Bridge, Cafe Gondree (the first house liberated), Ranville, Merville Battery,
Troarn Bridge and many other places of interest, including Divisional
and Unit Memorials.
On the 6th June we attend the Airborne Service of remembrance at Ranville Cemetery. There is also the possibility of Special Visits to
any cemetery in the Normandy area.
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World War 2 – St Nazaire Combined Operations Raid and Normandy Beaches visit
'‘The greatest raid of all’ – a popular tour, once again led by Peter Lush from The St. Nazaire Society
24th – 28th July
5 Days, 4 Nights
£499.00
On our first day we travel from the UK to our Hotel in Rouen. The next
day sees us en route to St Nazaire and the scene of one of the most daring
Combined Operations Raids in history – here a small, lightly
armed force took on the might of the German coastal defences and succeeded
in ramming HMS Campbeltown, loaded with explosives, into the Normandy
Dry Dock gates whilst the Commandos stormed ashore and destroyed the pumping
stations and winding gear, rendering the dock inoperable for the rest
of the War.
We will visit the submarine pens and take a guided
tour around a submarine. We'll visit the Eco Museum and walk the ground
covered by these brave men, with a detailed description of each part of
the raid and its objectives. We'll visit several cemeteries in the area
containing graves of the men who did not return – including graves of
those lost in the sinking of the HM Troopship Lancastria in 1940.
We return via Normandy for a day visiting the
British and Canadian landing beaches of Gold, Juno, Sword and Arromanches,
and other places of interest. One night will be spent in Rouen, two
in St Nazaire and one in Normandy. Special Visits are possible in
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