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By HQ Company Tour

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Overview

  • The book written by Stephen Ambrose and the famous 2001 TV series produced by Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks has been a great success and left so many people with a desire to learn more about Easy Company, led by the famous 1st Lieutenant Richard Dick Winters.
    This is your chance to discover the sites where these soldiers were fighting during their campaign in Normandy and learn many details about the protagonists and their actions.

Activity location

  • Omaha Beach
    • Avenue de la Liberation
    • Saint-Laurent-sur-Mer, France

Meeting/Redemption Point

  • Place du Québec
    • Place du Québec
    • 14400, Bayeux, Normandie, France

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What's included, what's not

  • Inclusions
    Experienced and certified guide
  • Inclusions
    Round trip from central Bayeux in a minivan with A/C
  • Exclusions
    Service charge
  • Exclusions
    Lunch

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    • Public transport options are available nearby
    • Suitable for all physical fitness levels

Activity itinerary

Omaha Beach

  • 1h 5m
After a 30-minute drive from Bayeux, you will start the day on Omaha beach where the 1st and 29th US infantry divisions landed. With the help of maps and pictures, our guides will explain to you all the details of “bloody Omaha”. From the layout of the German defences to the plight of the first waves, we will share with you the stories of these brave Gi’s who conquered the beach.

Cimetiere Americain de Colleville-sur-Mer

  • 1h 5m
After a 5 min drive, your guide will show you the American cemetery behind Omaha beach. the resting place of more than 9,000 American servicemen and women. This sacred place, run by the American Battle Monuments Commission, is the most visited D-Day site in Normandy.

Pointe du Hoc

  • 1h 20m
We will drive 20 minutes to our next stop: the unique site of Pointe du Hoc. Follow the footsteps of the 2nd US Ranger Battalion led by the famous Lieutenant Colonel James E. Rudder who scaled the cliffs to destroy a German gun battery threatening the whole US landing operation. Bomb craters, bunkers, dugouts, come and see this outstanding battlefield.

Sainte-Mere-Eglise

  • 2h 30m
We will then drive 30 minutes to Sainte-Mère-Eglise. In the heart of the Airborne operation, it was the first town to be liberated by the American paratroopers. One of them got stuck up on the church tower during that night. Your guide will share with you the details of this crucial operation and many stories of these brave men. We will make a 60 min break with free time for the lunch

Ravenoville

  • 1h
After lunch you will follow Easy Company led by Richard “Dick” Winters. You will learn in detail D-day plans concerning the different regiments of the 101st airborne division for their very first actions during WWII. Discover Marmion’s farm and stand where the first newsreel pictures of the invasion were taken. Men from Easy Company stayed there for a while.

Manoir de Brecourt

  • 30m
The battle of Brecourt manor is the most famous action seen in the second episode of the TV show. The group took out four guns firing at Utah Beach. From the Easy company monument your guide will tell you everything about this exceptional battle.

Carentan

  • 1h
The tour will end at Carentan. The town was a strategic crossroad that Easy Company captured. See the road used by these men in the third episode of the show “Band of Brothers” We will then drive 30 minutes back to Bayeux where we started the tour.

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Activity location

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    Omaha Beach
    • Avenue de la Liberation
    • Saint-Laurent-sur-Mer, France

Meeting/Redemption Point

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    Place du Québec
    • Place du Québec
    • 14400, Bayeux, Normandie, France

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