France 2024 - Day 13
Saint-Chapelle Our final day in France started with a visit to a little park near our hotel. The Park has a special past with a small chapel in it. Chapelle Expiatoire was the original burial ground for those beheaded …
France 2024
France 2024 - Day 12
Versailles Louis XIII built a hunting lodge outside of Paris where his very young son developed some fond memories. At age 5 Louis XIII died and that young son was to be the next king. His mother and a court elder ruled …
France 2024 - Day 11
Remembrance Our final day of the tour was back near the beaches where many of those who sacrificed their lives for our freedom lie. We started at the newly completed British memorial where the names of all the dead and …
France 2024 - Day 10
Falaise Pocket After the failure of the german counter-offensive, the rout was on. The Britishm Canadians and Polish forces were finally pushing the Germans back. Meanwhile, the American Forces had cleared the Cherborg …
France 2024 - Day 9
Operation Cobra The grind of the bacage fighting in western France and the battle of attrition to the east was weighing heavily upon the allied command. Clearly, something had to be done. General Omar Bradley, usually …
France 2024 - Day 8
U.S. Airborne and La Haye du Puits Today we continued looking at the American sector and the continued slow, deadly progress in the Cherbourg peninsula. Over the course of the first weeks of the Normandy campaign, the …
France 2024 - Day 7
Terrain Day With the initial securing of the beach heads allied forces began to move inland. The British, Canadian and Polish troups started a head-to-head battle with the Germans protecting Caen and other routes east. …
France 2024 - Day 6
Commando Day Today we focused on the eastern sections of D-Day including Sword beach and its defenses. A major part of these operations included the Commando raids, especially the famous “Pegasus Bridge” raid. The …
France 2024 - Day 5
Omaha Beach Our first day of the WW2TV tour started out on the sands Omaha Beach, We arrives shortly after low tide and learned first hand how fast the tide rises and how it creates troughs and sand bars along the …
France 2024 - Day 4
Paris to Bayoux Saturday was a day of travel by train from the Gare Saint-Lazare station in Paris to the town of Bayeux in Normandy. The train trip was very nice as we rolled through the French countryside. We arrive in …