I'd be on for this, put my name down.
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Gauging Interest - FGM Normandy Tour 2017
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What kind of money are we talking here? Ballpark figure.
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Personally I'm not phased either way but it's probably something to decide upon once we have a set group of committed travellers.
That might be a good idea.
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Ok guys.... can we do another head count for this.... if need be I can start doing a proper costing and look into it as I have contact with quite a few battlefield guides. Im still interested as it would be a fantastic opportunity for us all to meet and for me personally to tick some things of my bucket list.
Yes assuming my money situation improves. 
(Stupid house) It is on my bucket list as well.
(Stupid house) It is on my bucket list as well.
Count me in.
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2017 around this time still~ no changes just yet.
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Interesting... Very interesting and tempting... Problem is that we are saving for a 4 week trip to Canada in 2018 so need to have a good chat with the boss (aka the wife) about this.
Hi Boot,
Could we have a little more detail?
Who the guides may be and how long a tour?
Maybe a time frame?
Honestly Gunner it was your posts that inspired me initially. Gary seems great and that type of detailed off the beaten track tour is what I'm personally going for.
Sorry RL and new house has kept me on the sidelines for this and other things for a while now.
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I was going to touch base with Paul Reed or Ben Mayne. Give me a few days and I will look into it.
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Ive been in touch with Ben Mayne asking for a brief overview of what he can offer. https://twitter.com/BattlefieldBen
Depending on prices for a bespoke tour if we cant stretch that far we have Leger Battlefield Tours with this package. 7 days from only £599pp
Day 1 - Tangmere Aviation Museum
Local departure by coach or Door-to Door service then travel to Kent where you meet your tour coach and specialist guide. Our tour begins at Tangmere Aviation Museum in West Sussex from where the 2nd Tactical Force flew into Normandy on D-day. After we continue to Portsmouth for an overnight stay.
Day 2 - D-Day sites, Southwick House
This morning we visit the Portsmouth Memorial, which commemorates Naval personnel who fell on D-Day and then go to Southwick House (access subject to approval by the MOD) where the Allied Commanders met to discuss plans for D-Day. Here we see the famous D-Day wall map. We then take an afternoon ferry to Normandy and onto our hotel in Caen for a five-night stay.
Day 3 - The Airborne Story
We focus on the actions in the early hours of D-Day, visiting Pegasus Bridge and its museum and then the Drop and Landing zones. We continue to the Airborne graves at Ranville, the important Breville Gap and then the superb Merville Battery Museum
Day 4 - America's D-Day
Today we look at the American Airborne story, starting at the Dead Man’s Corner Museum; an original building which featured in the D-Day story, it has an unrivalled collection of Airborne memorabilia including items belonging to the ‘Band of Brothers’ including Dick Winters. We then travel through the area where 82nd and 101st Airborne landed and see the Iron Mike Memorial at La Fiere. We spend an extended lunch period in St. Mere Eglise, having time to visit the Museum, before travelling out to Utah Beach to begin our look at the seaborne landings, seeing the new Higgins Boat Memorial.
Day 5 - Britain's D-Day
We continue with the D-Day story today in the British sector beginning with the story of Sword Beach seeing the Piper Bill Millin memorial, as well as the British D-Day graves at Hermanville War Cemetery before travelling to the Hillman Bunker site where the Suffolk Regiment fought on 6th June. We then travel into the Juno Beach area and have lunch at Courseulles, later seeing where the Canadians landed as well as looking at 1Charlie – a Churchill AVRE that was part of the D-Day story but which remained buried until the 1970s. On Gold Beach we see where Stan Hollis landed and look at the story of this D-Day Victoria Cross winner, and then see Britain’s deadliest D-Day beach at Asnelles before looking at the Mulberry Harbour – the artificial port – in Arromanches.
Day 6 - Bayeux to Pointe du Hoc
This morning we begin at Bayeux seeing the War Cemetery and Memorial to the Missing before going to Longues sur Mer to the gun battery site that threatened the British landings: it is one of the few where the guns still remain and was used in the filming of the Longest Day. After lunch in Port en Bessin, where the Pipeline Under The Ocean (PLUTO) came in, we visit the Normandy American Cemetery before visiting the massive Overlord Museum with its tanks and life-size recreations of D-Day. We then travel down on to Omaha Beach looking at the real story of Saving Private Ryan. We end the day at Pointe du Hoc where the Rangers assaulted this gun battery site which threatened the landings on Omaha.
Day 7
Return home.
Depending on prices for a bespoke tour if we cant stretch that far we have Leger Battlefield Tours with this package. 7 days from only £599pp
Day 1 - Tangmere Aviation Museum
Local departure by coach or Door-to Door service then travel to Kent where you meet your tour coach and specialist guide. Our tour begins at Tangmere Aviation Museum in West Sussex from where the 2nd Tactical Force flew into Normandy on D-day. After we continue to Portsmouth for an overnight stay.
- Door-to-door available Find out more
Day 2 - D-Day sites, Southwick House
This morning we visit the Portsmouth Memorial, which commemorates Naval personnel who fell on D-Day and then go to Southwick House (access subject to approval by the MOD) where the Allied Commanders met to discuss plans for D-Day. Here we see the famous D-Day wall map. We then take an afternoon ferry to Normandy and onto our hotel in Caen for a five-night stay.
- Included meals: Breakfast
Day 3 - The Airborne Story
We focus on the actions in the early hours of D-Day, visiting Pegasus Bridge and its museum and then the Drop and Landing zones. We continue to the Airborne graves at Ranville, the important Breville Gap and then the superb Merville Battery Museum
- Included meals: Breakfast
Day 4 - America's D-Day
Today we look at the American Airborne story, starting at the Dead Man’s Corner Museum; an original building which featured in the D-Day story, it has an unrivalled collection of Airborne memorabilia including items belonging to the ‘Band of Brothers’ including Dick Winters. We then travel through the area where 82nd and 101st Airborne landed and see the Iron Mike Memorial at La Fiere. We spend an extended lunch period in St. Mere Eglise, having time to visit the Museum, before travelling out to Utah Beach to begin our look at the seaborne landings, seeing the new Higgins Boat Memorial.
- Included meals: Breakfast
Day 5 - Britain's D-Day
We continue with the D-Day story today in the British sector beginning with the story of Sword Beach seeing the Piper Bill Millin memorial, as well as the British D-Day graves at Hermanville War Cemetery before travelling to the Hillman Bunker site where the Suffolk Regiment fought on 6th June. We then travel into the Juno Beach area and have lunch at Courseulles, later seeing where the Canadians landed as well as looking at 1Charlie – a Churchill AVRE that was part of the D-Day story but which remained buried until the 1970s. On Gold Beach we see where Stan Hollis landed and look at the story of this D-Day Victoria Cross winner, and then see Britain’s deadliest D-Day beach at Asnelles before looking at the Mulberry Harbour – the artificial port – in Arromanches.
- Included meals: Breakfast
Day 6 - Bayeux to Pointe du Hoc
This morning we begin at Bayeux seeing the War Cemetery and Memorial to the Missing before going to Longues sur Mer to the gun battery site that threatened the British landings: it is one of the few where the guns still remain and was used in the filming of the Longest Day. After lunch in Port en Bessin, where the Pipeline Under The Ocean (PLUTO) came in, we visit the Normandy American Cemetery before visiting the massive Overlord Museum with its tanks and life-size recreations of D-Day. We then travel down on to Omaha Beach looking at the real story of Saving Private Ryan. We end the day at Pointe du Hoc where the Rangers assaulted this gun battery site which threatened the landings on Omaha.
- Included meals: Breakfast
Day 7
Return home.
I don't want to step on anyone's toes here. Especially not Bootie.
But I have to talk up Gary at Pegasus Tours (http://www.pegasusbattlefieldtours.com/)
We have used him twice, once for a six day Normandy tour and one for a 3 Day 1st SS Panzer Corps tour, and his knowledge and presentations are brilliant.
Albeit it may cost more with the hotel but it will truly be a life time experience.
Just a thought perhaps you may consider this option during your investigations.
If you can make it near to Bayeux. Gary will pick you up promptly at nine Mecedes 7 passenger Van) and although the website says drop off at 5,(but I think that's if he is touring with, as he puts it, Mister and Misses) we toured to 7 or 7:30 every day usually back to the hotel by dusk.
In those 6 days we had 89 stands. Gary told us a year later when we did the Panzer Corps that that is a record he does not see being broken.
Although we did do several cemeteries we did not do any museums.
If you do contact him be sure to mention my name, Ted Ramos, and wish him my best.
A letter from Gary and the sites we visited:
Normandy Tour
Hi Ted
It was great to meet you all and it was a thoroughly enjoyable week.
I'm glad you all enjoyed the tour and many thanks for your email and comments. I would like to see the photos of the Falaise Pocket sometime, particularly if you have a photo of the lunch at Moissy.
Please find below the list of all places we visited. Hopefully it will inspire some good reading in the years ahead - made easier and more interesting by the fact that you now have a good idea of the terrain.
All the best
Gary
Day 1 - US Airborne Sector
Tour briefing
Ste Mere-Eglise - 82nd A/B 505 PIR
La Fiere - Drop zones T, O, N 82nd A/B
Cauquiny - 325 Glider Infantry Reg - Capt Rae - Church
Cauquiny - DeGlopper Medal of Honor (325 Glider Infantry Reg.)
Amfreville - 82nd Airborne Timmes Orchard
Lunch - Ste Mere-Eglise
Marmion Farm - E Company 101st Airborne action - Forrest Guth - later used by the war correspondents
Foucarville - German POW work camp
Beuzeville au Plein - Lt Thomas Meehan III C47 crash site and monument
Brecourt Manor - Winters gun emplacement - Band of Brothers (E Co 506th PIR 101st Airborne Div)
Major Dick Winters Monument
Saint Marie du Mont - Church - Village - Red Ball EXPRESS - 1st village liberated in US sector
Angoville au Plain - Drop Zone D & 101st A/B 501 PIR Medics Church (Bob Wright & Kenneth Moore) & 506 PIR HQ (Lt Col Bob Sink)
Day 2 - Omaha & Utah Beaches
Colleville-sur-Mer - US Military Cemetery
Omaha Beach - Dog Green/White Sector - US 29th Infantry Division/US 5th and 2nd Rangers - German Strongpoint WN70
Omaha Beach - Dog Green Sector - US 29th Infantry Division Monument - German Strongpoint WN72/88mm Gun Emplacement
Pointe du Hoc - US 2nd Rangers
Grandcamp Maisy - Frank Peregory Medal of Honor Memorial (US 29th Div)
Lunch en route
Hiesville - General Maxwell Taylor 10st Airborne HQ
Hiesville - Chateua de Colombieres - 101st Airborne Field Hospital
Utah Beach - Exit 2 - La Madeleine - US 4th and 90th Divisions - General Teddy Roosevelt Jr
Utah Beach - WN10 - Les Dunes de Varaville - Planned assault area
Utah Beach Exit 1 - Poupeville - Gen Taylor and Lt Col Ewell and Lt Mabry (US 4th ID)
La Cambe German Cemetery
Day 3 - British 6th Airborne Sector
Pegasus Bridge - Major John Howard - 2nd Ox & Bucks Light Infantry in gliders - First action of D-Day
Merville Battery - 9 Para Bn - Lt Col Terrence Otway
Lunch - Café Gondrée - 1st House liberated - Mme Arlette Gondrée
Amfreville - Commando and 6th Airborne positions - 1st memorials in Normandy
Le Plein - Madame Saulniers Farm used as aid station for British Commando units.
Breville - Church ruins
Breville Ridge - Drop Zone N (DZ-N)
Chateau St Come - 9 Para/1 Canadian Para/Black Watch/Ox & Bucks action
51st Highland Division Piper Memorial
Le Mesnil Crossroads
Varaville Bridge - Sgt Baillie
Varaville - Canadian 1st Para Battalion Memorial and Drop Zone V (DZ-V)
Robehomme Bridge - Lt Inman
Bures - Juckes Bridge - Capt Juckes
Bures - Railway Bridge - Lt Forster
Troarn Bridge - Major Roseveare
Day 4 - British & Canadian Beaches
Creully - Chateau de Creullet - Montgomery's 21st Army Group Headquarters
Creully - 4th/7th Royal Dragoon Guards Memorial - DD Tanks & Chateau de Creully BBC HQ
Reviers - Neolithic Barrow Fort
Beny-sur-Mer - Canadian Military Cemetery
Periers Ridge - Overlooking Sword Beach - route of 21st Panzer Division counter-attack on D-Day
Periers Ridge - Royal Norfolk Regiment Monument - Belvoir Farm
'Hillman' Strongpoint - Colonel Ludwig Krug's HQ taken by 1 Suffolks
Lunch - Hermanville-sur-Mer
Sword Beach - Queen White - Hermanville - Assault area of British 3rd Infantry Division & Memorials
Sword Beach - Lion-sur-Mer - AVRE Tank (Petard Mortar) & Memorials for 41 Commando and Roosevelt
Juno Beach - Courselles - Nan Green sector - Regina Rifles assault & DD Tank Memorial
Juno Beach - Mike Red & Green Sectors - Royal Winnipeg Rifles/Canadian Scottish & AVRE Tank Memorial & Cross of Lorraine & Polish Memorial
Gold Beach - King Green/Red - Sector La Paisty Vert - Mont Fleury Battery Stanley Hollis VC action
Gold Beach - Asnelles/Le Hamel - British 50th Infantry Division/231 Brigade assault - view of Mulberry Harbour
Gold Beach - Arromanches Mulberry Artificial Harbour - view from cliff top - Radar Station position
Day 5 - Various
Longues-sur-Mer - Gun battery original coastal guns
Cristot - Sunken lane CSM Stan Hollis VC action against 12SS
Audrieu - Chateau - HQ 12SS Reconnaissance Battalion - Scene of executions
Audrieu - Monument to the murdered
Putot-en-Bessin - Monument in the village to the Canadian units - Royal Winnipeg Rifles and Canadian Scottish
Bretteville L'Orgueilleuse - Regina Rifles/12th SS Panzer Division/knocked out Panther tank and destroyed church
Rots - 46 Commando Memorial
Rots - Canadian Scottish/Chaudiere/Fort Garry Horse Memorial & Passage Leon Gagne (married the bakers daughter)
Rots - Church square - tank battles with 12th SS
Abbey d'Ardennes - 12th SS Panzer/25th Panzer Grenadiers Regimental HQ - Kurt Meyer - Canadian prisoners executed 7th (plus other dates) June 1944.
Lunch at Bretteville-sur-Odon
Hill 112 - 43rd Wessex Division v various SS units 1/9/10 and 12
Villers Bocage
Tilly-sur-Seulles - British Cemetery
Day 6 - The Falaise Pocket
Cinthaux/La Jalousie - Michael Wittman tank battle & death (101 Heavy Panzer Battalion) & Operations Totalise & Tractable
Hill 140 - Worthington Force - Fog and 12SS Panzer Division
Grainville-Langannerie - Polish Military Cemetery
Falaise - William The Conqueror birthplace & castle
Trun - 4th Canadian Armoured Division HQ
St Lambert-sur-Dive - Memorial stand and viewpoint over 'The Gap'.
St Lambert-sur-Dive - Major David Currie VC Memorial - South Alberta Regiment
St Lambert-sur-Dive - German 20mm Flak gun
Lunch at my private 'Restaurant de la Mort' at Moissy - The Ford - last exit route - The Corridor of Death
Chambois - Polish battle - General Maczek and meeting point of US 359th Infantry Regiment (90th Division) and the Poles - Memorials
Vimoutiers - Rommel's crash site
Vimoutiers - Tiger Tank
The Mace (Maczuga) - Hill 262 North - Polish 1st Armoured Division positions - Polish Memorial
Boisjos Farmhouse - HQ and aid station for Polish 1st Armoured Division
Montormel - Memorials and view over the pocket/gap
Chambois/Fel - German surrender - POW's brought to this position (through archway)
Hill 129 - US 359th Infantry Regiment positions
Hill 114 - von Richtofen German Memorial
St Lambert-sur-Dive - Bridge over River Dives and position of knocked out Panthers
Le Chateau d'Aubry - Mauser K98 in the tree
Torpedo Junction - US 359th Infantry Regiment Artillery zero point
Tournai-sur-Dive - 105mm Gun in garden and strafing on buildings
Tournai-sur-Dive - Church & M3A1 Half Track
Tournai-sur-Dive - Memorial for L'Abbe Launay and Negotiation of Surrender at Morellec Farm
89 stands!
Gary J Weight
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But I have to talk up Gary at Pegasus Tours (http://www.pegasusbattlefieldtours.com/)
We have used him twice, once for a six day Normandy tour and one for a 3 Day 1st SS Panzer Corps tour, and his knowledge and presentations are brilliant.
Albeit it may cost more with the hotel but it will truly be a life time experience.
Just a thought perhaps you may consider this option during your investigations.
If you can make it near to Bayeux. Gary will pick you up promptly at nine Mecedes 7 passenger Van) and although the website says drop off at 5,(but I think that's if he is touring with, as he puts it, Mister and Misses) we toured to 7 or 7:30 every day usually back to the hotel by dusk.
In those 6 days we had 89 stands. Gary told us a year later when we did the Panzer Corps that that is a record he does not see being broken.
Although we did do several cemeteries we did not do any museums.
If you do contact him be sure to mention my name, Ted Ramos, and wish him my best.
A letter from Gary and the sites we visited:
Normandy Tour
Hi Ted
It was great to meet you all and it was a thoroughly enjoyable week.
I'm glad you all enjoyed the tour and many thanks for your email and comments. I would like to see the photos of the Falaise Pocket sometime, particularly if you have a photo of the lunch at Moissy.
Please find below the list of all places we visited. Hopefully it will inspire some good reading in the years ahead - made easier and more interesting by the fact that you now have a good idea of the terrain.
All the best
Gary
Day 1 - US Airborne Sector
Tour briefing
Ste Mere-Eglise - 82nd A/B 505 PIR
La Fiere - Drop zones T, O, N 82nd A/B
Cauquiny - 325 Glider Infantry Reg - Capt Rae - Church
Cauquiny - DeGlopper Medal of Honor (325 Glider Infantry Reg.)
Amfreville - 82nd Airborne Timmes Orchard
Lunch - Ste Mere-Eglise
Marmion Farm - E Company 101st Airborne action - Forrest Guth - later used by the war correspondents
Foucarville - German POW work camp
Beuzeville au Plein - Lt Thomas Meehan III C47 crash site and monument
Brecourt Manor - Winters gun emplacement - Band of Brothers (E Co 506th PIR 101st Airborne Div)
Major Dick Winters Monument
Saint Marie du Mont - Church - Village - Red Ball EXPRESS - 1st village liberated in US sector
Angoville au Plain - Drop Zone D & 101st A/B 501 PIR Medics Church (Bob Wright & Kenneth Moore) & 506 PIR HQ (Lt Col Bob Sink)
Day 2 - Omaha & Utah Beaches
Colleville-sur-Mer - US Military Cemetery
Omaha Beach - Dog Green/White Sector - US 29th Infantry Division/US 5th and 2nd Rangers - German Strongpoint WN70
Omaha Beach - Dog Green Sector - US 29th Infantry Division Monument - German Strongpoint WN72/88mm Gun Emplacement
Pointe du Hoc - US 2nd Rangers
Grandcamp Maisy - Frank Peregory Medal of Honor Memorial (US 29th Div)
Lunch en route
Hiesville - General Maxwell Taylor 10st Airborne HQ
Hiesville - Chateua de Colombieres - 101st Airborne Field Hospital
Utah Beach - Exit 2 - La Madeleine - US 4th and 90th Divisions - General Teddy Roosevelt Jr
Utah Beach - WN10 - Les Dunes de Varaville - Planned assault area
Utah Beach Exit 1 - Poupeville - Gen Taylor and Lt Col Ewell and Lt Mabry (US 4th ID)
La Cambe German Cemetery
Day 3 - British 6th Airborne Sector
Pegasus Bridge - Major John Howard - 2nd Ox & Bucks Light Infantry in gliders - First action of D-Day
Merville Battery - 9 Para Bn - Lt Col Terrence Otway
Lunch - Café Gondrée - 1st House liberated - Mme Arlette Gondrée
Amfreville - Commando and 6th Airborne positions - 1st memorials in Normandy
Le Plein - Madame Saulniers Farm used as aid station for British Commando units.
Breville - Church ruins
Breville Ridge - Drop Zone N (DZ-N)
Chateau St Come - 9 Para/1 Canadian Para/Black Watch/Ox & Bucks action
51st Highland Division Piper Memorial
Le Mesnil Crossroads
Varaville Bridge - Sgt Baillie
Varaville - Canadian 1st Para Battalion Memorial and Drop Zone V (DZ-V)
Robehomme Bridge - Lt Inman
Bures - Juckes Bridge - Capt Juckes
Bures - Railway Bridge - Lt Forster
Troarn Bridge - Major Roseveare
Day 4 - British & Canadian Beaches
Creully - Chateau de Creullet - Montgomery's 21st Army Group Headquarters
Creully - 4th/7th Royal Dragoon Guards Memorial - DD Tanks & Chateau de Creully BBC HQ
Reviers - Neolithic Barrow Fort
Beny-sur-Mer - Canadian Military Cemetery
Periers Ridge - Overlooking Sword Beach - route of 21st Panzer Division counter-attack on D-Day
Periers Ridge - Royal Norfolk Regiment Monument - Belvoir Farm
'Hillman' Strongpoint - Colonel Ludwig Krug's HQ taken by 1 Suffolks
Lunch - Hermanville-sur-Mer
Sword Beach - Queen White - Hermanville - Assault area of British 3rd Infantry Division & Memorials
Sword Beach - Lion-sur-Mer - AVRE Tank (Petard Mortar) & Memorials for 41 Commando and Roosevelt
Juno Beach - Courselles - Nan Green sector - Regina Rifles assault & DD Tank Memorial
Juno Beach - Mike Red & Green Sectors - Royal Winnipeg Rifles/Canadian Scottish & AVRE Tank Memorial & Cross of Lorraine & Polish Memorial
Gold Beach - King Green/Red - Sector La Paisty Vert - Mont Fleury Battery Stanley Hollis VC action
Gold Beach - Asnelles/Le Hamel - British 50th Infantry Division/231 Brigade assault - view of Mulberry Harbour
Gold Beach - Arromanches Mulberry Artificial Harbour - view from cliff top - Radar Station position
Day 5 - Various
Longues-sur-Mer - Gun battery original coastal guns
Cristot - Sunken lane CSM Stan Hollis VC action against 12SS
Audrieu - Chateau - HQ 12SS Reconnaissance Battalion - Scene of executions
Audrieu - Monument to the murdered
Putot-en-Bessin - Monument in the village to the Canadian units - Royal Winnipeg Rifles and Canadian Scottish
Bretteville L'Orgueilleuse - Regina Rifles/12th SS Panzer Division/knocked out Panther tank and destroyed church
Rots - 46 Commando Memorial
Rots - Canadian Scottish/Chaudiere/Fort Garry Horse Memorial & Passage Leon Gagne (married the bakers daughter)
Rots - Church square - tank battles with 12th SS
Abbey d'Ardennes - 12th SS Panzer/25th Panzer Grenadiers Regimental HQ - Kurt Meyer - Canadian prisoners executed 7th (plus other dates) June 1944.
Lunch at Bretteville-sur-Odon
Hill 112 - 43rd Wessex Division v various SS units 1/9/10 and 12
Villers Bocage
Tilly-sur-Seulles - British Cemetery
Day 6 - The Falaise Pocket
Cinthaux/La Jalousie - Michael Wittman tank battle & death (101 Heavy Panzer Battalion) & Operations Totalise & Tractable
Hill 140 - Worthington Force - Fog and 12SS Panzer Division
Grainville-Langannerie - Polish Military Cemetery
Falaise - William The Conqueror birthplace & castle
Trun - 4th Canadian Armoured Division HQ
St Lambert-sur-Dive - Memorial stand and viewpoint over 'The Gap'.
St Lambert-sur-Dive - Major David Currie VC Memorial - South Alberta Regiment
St Lambert-sur-Dive - German 20mm Flak gun
Lunch at my private 'Restaurant de la Mort' at Moissy - The Ford - last exit route - The Corridor of Death
Chambois - Polish battle - General Maczek and meeting point of US 359th Infantry Regiment (90th Division) and the Poles - Memorials
Vimoutiers - Rommel's crash site
Vimoutiers - Tiger Tank
The Mace (Maczuga) - Hill 262 North - Polish 1st Armoured Division positions - Polish Memorial
Boisjos Farmhouse - HQ and aid station for Polish 1st Armoured Division
Montormel - Memorials and view over the pocket/gap
Chambois/Fel - German surrender - POW's brought to this position (through archway)
Hill 129 - US 359th Infantry Regiment positions
Hill 114 - von Richtofen German Memorial
St Lambert-sur-Dive - Bridge over River Dives and position of knocked out Panthers
Le Chateau d'Aubry - Mauser K98 in the tree
Torpedo Junction - US 359th Infantry Regiment Artillery zero point
Tournai-sur-Dive - 105mm Gun in garden and strafing on buildings
Tournai-sur-Dive - Church & M3A1 Half Track
Tournai-sur-Dive - Memorial for L'Abbe Launay and Negotiation of Surrender at Morellec Farm
89 stands!
Gary J Weight
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We are currently looking at 2 or 3 going at the moment so that would work out very expensive... possibly 760 each before you have to pay for food and hotel... oucha.
We should just bring you over to give us the tour.
We should just bring you over to give us the tour.
LoL. I'd be lucky to find the English Channel.
You're right it would be expensive.
Oh well, maybe next time!
You're right it would be expensive.
Oh well, maybe next time!
I'm inclined to like the Pegasus Tour more. It actually goes beyond D-Day and further inland. Though I do like the UK sites in the first option. If there is plenty of warning the 700 pound price tag not a concern for me personally.
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Perhaps there is an option for me to go. We postponed the trip to Canada to 2018 so I'm going to have a good chat with the boss.