Private DDAY Tour Omaha Beach Normandy

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1. Visit the unique German battery protecting the coast between Omaha and Gold Beach. Only bunkers left that have all original guns in place.

   1 h

2. This World War II cemetery in France contains the graves of nearly 9400 war dead and nearly 1600 names on the Walls of the Missing.

   1.5 h

3. The exhibition covers nearly 24,200 sq ft. 10,000 extraordinary items, including 40 vehicles, tanks and cannons, most of which were found in Normandy, are displayed in scenes that are as striking as they are breathtaking, plunging the visitor into the heart of history.

   1.5 hAdmission included

4. Omaha Beach was part of the invasion area assigned to the U.S. First Army, under Lieutenant General Omar Bradley. The assault sectors at Omaha were code-named (from west to east) Charlie, Dog (consisting of Green, White, and Red sections), Easy (Green and Red sections), and Fox (Green and Red sections). We will have one on Omaha Beach, at either Vierville, St Laurent, and/or Colleville.

   1.5 h

5. Pointe du Hoc is a high point between two of the five D-Day landing beaches, Utah and Omaha. It is renowned for the daring assault conducted on 6 June 1944 by the 2nd U.S. Ranger Battalion in an effort to neutralise the German artillery battery there.

   1.5 h

6. La Cambe is a Second World War German military war grave cemetery, located close to the American landing beach of Omaha. It is the largest German war cemetery in Normandy and contains the remains of over 21,200 German military personnel. Initially, American and German dead were buried in adjacent fields but American dead were later disinterred and either returned to the US or re-interred at the Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial, 15 km (9.3 mi) away. After the war over 12,000 German dead were moved from approximately 1,400 field burials across Normandy to La Cambe. The cemetery is maintained and managed by the voluntary German War Graves Commission (Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge).

   1 h

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How it compares in Bayeux

• Its from-price is 75% above the median of the 92 day trips we list in Bayeux.
• Its length is typical for the group.
• By number of reviews it ranks 53 of 92.

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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