Half-Day Tour of Juno Sector with a Professional Guide

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1. Considered one of the most important elements of Hitler's Atlantic Wall in Normandy, WN 48 is the only German battery to have retained three of its four original 150-mm guns in situ! This is a great hands on experience involving naval guns and WWII bunkers. Your guide will take the time to describe the construction process, the role of the German fortifications as well as the place of WN 48 in the history of the D-Day landings.

   1 h

2. One of two artificial harbours assembled at Normandy after D-Day, ‘Mulberry B’ represented a masterpiece of engineering. Approximately 22% of the supplies required by the Anglo-Canadian forces in the course of the campaign came through this port alone. Learn the story behind its construction and marvel at the remnants of the port that are still visible on the seafront of Arromanches.

   45 min

3. Mike Sector was the westernmost section of Juno Beach. Assaulted by the Royal Winnipegs on D-Day, this part of the beach was to witness, during the initial wave, a casualty rate similar to that of Omaha Beach. One of "Hobart's funnies" that participated in the assault, a Churchill AVRE tank, is still guarding the beach exit created in the early hours of D-Day.

   45 min

4. Canada house is the most iconic landmark in the entire Canadian sector. It stands as a reminder of the valiant actions of the Queen's Own Rifles who carried out the assault on Nan White sector. This battalion had the highest casualty rate of all the Canadian units participating in the attack. It was also at Bernieres that were to land that morning La Chaudière Regiment, the only French speaking Canadian unit at Normandy on D-Day.

   45 min

5. The first of two Canadian cemeteries established in Normandy after the war, Beny-Reviers Cemetery is the final resting place for 2,049 men. Amongst them are most of the 359 Canadians fallen on D-Day, men who lost their lives during the battle for Caen but also some of the 156 Canadians murdered during the summer of 1944 by elements of the 12 SS Div.

   45 min

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How it compares in Bayeux

• Its from-price is close to the median of the 168 experiences we list in Bayeux.
• It is shorter than most of them.
• By number of reviews it ranks 95 of 168.

About Bayeux

Bayeux is a small Norman town of medieval lanes and a Gothic cathedral, home to a famous embroidery of the Norman conquest and close to the D-Day beaches.

A strip of embroidered linen almost seventy metres long, made in the eleventh century, tells the story of the Norman conquest of England in 1066 and hangs in its own museum in town. The cathedral, whose crossing spire towers over the rooftops, was consecrated in 1077 with William the Conqueror present. Bayeux escaped bombing in 1944, so its old centre of half-timbered and stone houses along the River Aure is largely intact.

Top-ranked sights in Bayeux: Omaha Beach, Pointe du Hoc, Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial.

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