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Thank you for a most moving
and memorable experience.
We shall spread the word and hope to see you again.
We did and saw much it is hard to remember everything, and thanks for looking after us so well.
World War 2 Battlefield Tours – 2009 (cont.)
The tour list gives the full index of all of our battlefield tours, pilgrimage tours and war graves tours for both World War 1, World War 2 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 –
Dambusters Raid and Colditz Castle
Led by Robert Owen, 'Official Historian 617 Squadron
Aircrew Association'
6th - 11th August
6 Days, 5 Nights
£540.00
This tour takes us across France, Belgium and into Holland where we spend
our first night.
The next day we visit Rheinberg Cemetery in Germany
to pay our respects to Flt. Lt. Hopgood and four of his crew members who
perished in the Dambusters Raid. We then visit the Dambusters crews interred
in Reichswald Forest Cemetery and hold our Service of Rememberance, before
visiting the crash site of Lancaster A/JB piloted by Flt. Lt. Astell,
and the local town museum.
The next day sees us at the immense Mohne and
Eder Dams, both successfully breached by the Barnes Wallis Bouncing Bomb,
so accurately dropped by the team led by Wing Commander Guy Gibson and
for which he was to receive the Victoria Cross. We also visit the crash
site of Flt. Lt. Hopgood, before we travel through the beautiful German
countryside to our hotel.
The next day sees us in the quaint old town of
Colditz dominated by its inspiring and infamous castle and divided by
the River Mulde. We then have a guided tour of the Museum rooms within
the Castle to see the artefacts so cleverly used to plan and facilitate
the daring escapes from the Castle, We have a lunch break in Colditz.
The following day we continue the tour, returning
through Germany before visiting the Arnhem area for a tour, and paying
a visit to Oosterbeek Cemetery in Arnhem, and spending the last night
in our hotel there.
En-route home the following day, we visit the
Bergen op Zoom Cemetery to see the last resting place of Pilot Officer
Burpee and crew who perished on the raid before finally visiting the grave
of Guy Gibson VC and his navigator Jim Warwick who lie in Steenbergen
Cemetery. We also see the Dambusters Memorial so proudly erected in the
town by the townsfolk.
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World War 2 –
Berlin Special
8th – 14th October
7 Days, 6 Nights
£630.00
After a morning departre from the UK this tour travels through France,
Belgium and into Holland where we spend our first in the Eindhoven area.
On the second day we travel along the Corridor 'Hells
Highway' up to Nijmegen and Arnhem covering the story of 'Operation Market
Garden', 'A Bridge Too Far' in the company of Lt.Col.(Rtd.) Tom van Soest.
We spend the night in our hotel in Arnhem.
The next day we visit the Belsen Concentration Camp,
before arriving at our hotel in the Helmstedt area.
We then travel to Berlin where we visit the Oder River at the point that the Russian Forces crossed. We follow the Battle of the Seelow Heights, visiting the museum and memorial, before following the Russian advance into the heart of Berlin and the capture of the Reichstag building.
Next day we visit Checkpoint Charlie, the remains of the Gestapo Headquarters, see the remains of the old Berlin Wall, Alexander Platz, Old East Berlin, Unter den Linden, the Brandenburg Gate, the site of Hitler’s Bunker, the Victory Memorial, the Plotensee Memorial and the Olympic Stadium. We end the day at the Berlin War Cemetery, before returning to our Hotel at Helmstedt.
Next day we travel back to Arnhem. On this tour there are options to visit Reichswald Forest, Hanover, Becklinghem Soltau, Munster Heath, Sage, Kiel, and Hamburg cemeteries.
The last day sees us visiting Oosterbeek Airborne Cemetery, Arnhem before making our way to Calais for the afternoon ferry home.
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