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A tour that will never be forgotten.
Thanks once again for a wonderful experience,
we intend
another visit next year.
Can't make a trip?
Want photographs of a Grave, Memorial or Battlefield site?
Contact Ian at the War Research Society Headquarters.
World War II Battlefield Tours – 2008 (cont.)
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 – Normandy Beaches Tour, Operation Overlord
4th – 8th September
5 Days, 4 Nights
£499.00
Our first night of this tour is spent in Rouen and Special Visits to St.
Sever cemetery at Rouenare 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.
There is also the possibility of Special Visits to
any cemetery in the Normandy area.
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World War 2 – 64th Anniversary of the Battle of Arnhem
A Bridge Too Far: Arnhem and Nijmegen
18th – 22nd September
5 Days, 4 Nights
£499.00
These tours are accompanied by Lt. Col. (Rtd.)
Tom Van Soest. Departing from the UK, this tour takes us through France and Belgium before
entering Holland to our first night's hotel in the Eindhoven area.
The next morning we will take a leisurely drive
along the Corridor, 'Hells Highway' which the troops took in their attempt
to relieve the Airborne Forces at Arnhem. Visiting, on route, the various
crossing places of the canal system, the Grave Bridge, and taking a break
in the beautiful town of Nijmegen. There will be a visit to Jonkerbos
Cemetery, before making our way to our Hotel at Arnhem.
From our base in Arnhem we visit Ginkel Heath
dropping and landing zones, Wolfheze, Heelsum and Oosterbeek areas, the
Hartenstein Hotel Airborne Museum, Schoonoord Cross-Roads, Oosterbeek
Airborne Cemetery and follow the route taken by John Frost into the famous
'Bridge Too Far', seeing en route the Tafelberg Hotel, the home of Kate
Ter Horst (the 'Angel of Arnhem').
We will visit the scenes of valour where L/Sgt
Baskeyfield, Cpt. Queripel, Cpt. Cain, Lt. Grayburn and Flt Lt. Lord all
won the coveted Victoria Cross. We also visit the Groesbeek area to view
the Liberation Museum, Canadian Cemetery and the impressive Overloon Battlefield
Park.
We then cross over into Germany and pay a visit
to the Reichswald Forest Cemetery, beside Kleve, and other cemeteries
by request.
We also attend the Airborne Drop at Ginkel Heath, and the
Special Service of Remembrance at Oosterbeek Airborne Cemetery, to pay
our respects along with the schoolchildren of the area.
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World War 2 – Battle of the Bulge
The Ardennes
25th – 29th September
5 Days, 4 Nights
£499.00
Travelling from the UK we make our way to our Hotel in Belgium for a one night stay. The following day we visit the beautiful town of Dinant before making for the town of Hotton, with its British and Commonwealth Cemetery, and seeing the Panther Tank at Grandmesnil. We then go to our Hotel in Luxemburg, where we spend the following three nights.
Next day sees us following the route taken by the infamous Joachim Peiper, from the Schnee Eifel in Germany, through the small lanes and villages, covering the various atrocities, before arriving at the cross-roads just outside Malmedy, where the notorious 'Massacre At Malmedy' took place. Here we pay our respects and have a short 'Service of Remembrance'. We then visit the cafe, where some of the troops took refuge. We continue on to the Hotel Moulin, where Peiper ate the breakfast of the fleeing Americans, and pay our respects to those shot at the small memorial outside. From here we cover the action at Trois Ponts before ending up at the Museum at La Gleize, where we see the fearsome King Tiger Tank.
Next day we see various memorials and pieces of equipment en route to the marvellous Museum in Deikirch, where we spend time looking at the artefacts and Panoramas so splendidly set out. Continuing south we visit the large American Cemetery in Luxembourg and see the grave of General Patton, before we visit Bastogne, 'Nuts City', see it's Sherman Tank, and visit the Mardasson American Memorial and Museum on the hillside.
Prior to returning to the Hotel, we visit the isolated graves of the airmen shot down on their return from a secret mission over Germany, who lie buried alongside their crashed aircraft. The following morning we make our way back to the Port of Calais, with Special Visits en route.
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World War 2 – The Italian Campaign Battlefield/Pilgrimage Tour
Italy, Monte Cassino, Salerno, Anzio
25th – 29th September
5 Days, 4 Nights
£695.00
Our Itinerary will be as follows, but may be subject to slight change depending on requests to visit specific sites/cemeteries but you are guaranteed to be taken to your place of request.
Day 1 – Flying out on day one we are met by our coach and taken to our Hotel in the Cassino area where we are based for the first four nights.
Day 2 – Visit to Monte Cassino, the Garigliano Valley and Minturno.
Day 3 – Today we visit Anzio, Aprilia, The Wadi’s and Campoleone.
Day 4 – Today we visit Salerno, and Naples.
Day 5 – After breakfast we are taken back to Rome Airport for our flight home.
All the Hotels used are of excellent standard up to and including 4 star, personally visited and checked out by the organizers. All rooms have en-suite facilities, television, telephone, all breakfasts are buffet breakfasts, and evening meals are three course. There will be the services of a chauffeur driven car to facilitate special visits to Bari and Taranto Cemeteries, and certain others in the Central region of Italy, if required.
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