Top 7 Omaha Utah Landing Beaches Sights Private Trip from Paris
15 hours (ID: 163504)
Private Full Day Trip to Top 7 Omaha Utah Sights by Mercedes: Omaha Beach with Signal Monument, Normandy American Cemetery. Pointe du Hoc, Airborne Museum in St. Mer Eglise, Milestone of Freedom 00, Utah Beach, Utah Beach Landing Museum with original B26 bomber. Tiered pricing. Live Guided Option. Hotel Pick up and Drop off included.
07:00 Hotel pick up and Departure to Normandy
07:00 Hotel Pick up and departure destination Normandy by our air conditioned comfortable Mercedes E220 or by Mercedes minivan. It takes about 3,5 hours (280 km) to reach Normandy American Cemetery in Collville-sur-Mer. One stop at a rest area will be made.
10:30 - 11:20 Normandy American Cemetery visit
10:30 - 11:20 Arrival and Visit of the Normandy American Cemetery & Visitor Center, located in Colleville-sur-Mer and overlooking Omaha Beach. It contains 9,387 U.S. soldiers, most of whom were killed during the Normandy Landings and the Wall of the Missing with the names of 1,557 soldiers missing in action. The cliffs leading down to the beaches contain the remnants of the German defences, including concrete casemates with memorials to the soldiers. At Normandy American Cemetery you’ll see as well the semicircular memorial colonnade with the sculpture “Spirit of American Youth Rising from the Waves” and large maps of military operations; and the most beautiful, idyllic spot on Planet Earth. At the Visitors Center You will find a very nice small Museum with a lot of informations about Battle of Normandy.
11:20 Departure to Omaha Beach. It takes just 7 minutes (5 km).
11:30 - 12:00 Omaha Beach
11:30 - 12:00 Arrival at Omaha Beach. Learn about the huge sacrifice made by the 34 000 men who landed here on D-Day. Omaha Beach is the most popular travellers destination of the D-Day Beaches.
12:00 - 12:40 Lunch break at Omaha Beach
12:00 - 12:40 Lunch break at Omaha Beach. There is a restaurant and a cafe open during the spring - summer season where You can get food or bring food with you to spend more time at Omaha Beach.
12:40 Departure to the Pointe du Hoc Rangers Monument. It takes 15 minutes (10 km).
13:00 - 13:40 Pointe du Hoc
13:00 - 13:40 Pointe du Hoc, a prominent cliff between Utah and Omaha Beach. This point was important because it was the highest land between Omaha and Utah beaches and could thus fire upon both of them. The site was a gun battery, fortified with concrete casemates and gun pits, forming part of Hitler’s Atlantic Wall defences. Visiting the Pointe du Hoc You will learn about the 2nd Ranger battalion sacrifice to take this crucial gun battery on the cliffs of Omaha Beach on June 6th 1944. Many of the original fortifications and bunkers remain on the site and are open to the public, including the fire control casemate, on top of which there is a monument to the 2nd Ranger Battalion.
13:40 Departure to the Utah Beach Landing Museum. It takes about 40 minutes (40 km).
14:20 - 14:40 Utah Beach and its Monuments
14:20 - 14:40 Arrival at Utah Beach. Free time for learning on Utah Beach. Utah Beach is the next to Omaha Beach and the westernmost of the Five Normandy D-Day Beaches containing nowadays many museums, memorials and monuments. Utah Beach was the first beach to be stormed by 23,000 American soldiers on 6 June 1944 in order to capture the town of Cherbourg and its deep water port. Utah Beach casualties were relatively light with 197 (including 60 missing). The units that landed on Utah Beach include: 82nd Airborne Division, 101st Airborne Division, VII Corps, 4th Infantry Division, 90th Infantry Division, 4th Cavalry Regiment and 70th Tank Battalion.
Near the UTAH BEACH Landing Museum You can discover many important monuments. Normandy’s Utah Beaches are wide and clear and make it easy to imagine the events of 1944. You can spend here some time strolling the beach, thinking about the events of WW2. In the same general area at the Landing Museum you’ll find a collection of monuments:
1. Higgins Boat Monument. On D-Day, Americans landed in amphibious crafts used for all ladings and known as Higgins Boats, named for its inventor.
2. U.S. Navy Monument, the only outside the US consisting of three figures meant to represent: leadership, sailors, and combat units. Inscribed on the base of this statue are the names of the American ships that participated in Operation Overlord.
3. 90th Infantry Division Monument. After landing on Utah Beach, the 90th continued inland through Northern France, then onto Belgium, the Ardennes and helped liberating the Nazi concentration camp at Flossenbürg in Bavaria.
14:40 - 15:40 Utah Beach Landing Museum visit
14:40 - 15:40 Visit at Utah Beach Landing Museum, created atop a former German bunker. Having a big collection of historical artifacts, military vehicles and the original B26 bomber—one of only six left in existence.
15:40 Departure to Sainte-Mère-Église town and Airborne Museum. It takes just 20 minutes (13 km).
16:00 - 16:20 Sainte-Mère-Église, John Steele Story, Milestone of freedom
16:00 - 16:20 Short stop in Sainte-Mère-Église in front of the Airborne Museum
Sainte-Mère-Église is a small town in Normandy which played a significant part in the WW2 because of its position. In the early morning of 6 June 1944, mixed units of the U.S.82nd and U.S.101st Airborne Divisions occupied the town in Mission Boston, making it one of the first towns liberated in the invasion.
John Steele Story. You will learn here the story about paratrooper John Steele of the 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment (PIR) and other members of 82 Div. John Steele was this figure that inspired the film "The Longest Day", shot in the village in 1961. Thanks to this cult film starring John Wayne, Henry Fonda and Sean Connery, this moment has been immortalised. In tribute to this soldier, a mannequin is still in place on the church steeple.
Milestone of freedom. The Borne 00 – Milestone 00 marks the spot where General Theodore Roosevelt Jr. landed and decided to lead the assault from. It is located in front of Sainte-Mère l'Eglise town hall.
16:20 - 18:00 Airborne Museum visit, Experience D-Day Night Jumps
16:20 - 18:00 Arrival at Airborne museum. This visitors of Normandy favourite museum is dedicated to the U.S. paratroopers of the 82nd and 101st Airborne Divisions. The Airborne Museum comprises five separate buildings, two of which resemble open parachutes. Inside you’ll find an incredible collection of World War II aircraft and thanks to the touch pad You will experience the highlights of the Normandy landings. The first WACO building of the Museum is dedicated to the gliders and presents the only copy of a WACO glider in France. You will join a dozen soldiers in the glider few moments before the take off. More than 500 gliders were deployed to carriy on About 4 400 soldiers, vehicles, ammunitions and other equipments. The C-47 building with the original legendary C-47 aircraft sits proudly at the centre of a spectacular scenography made of deployed parachutes, suspended mannequins and realistic statues that question the visitor!
18:00 Departure Paris. It takes 3,5 hours (320 km). One stop at the rest area will be made.
21:30 Arrival in Paris
21:30 Arrival in Paris depending on traffic situation and Your hotel location. Drop off at Your hotel.
- Normandy American Cemetery in Colleville-sur-Mer
- Omaha Beach with Signal Monument
- Pointe du Hoc Rangers Monument
- Utah Beach to see many D-Day Monuments
- Utah Beach Landing Museum with the original B26 bomber
- Stop at Sainte-Mère-Église town, John Steele Story, Milestone of freedom
- Airborne Museum
- Mercedes E220 or Mercedes Minivan
- All Fees and Taxes
- Bottles Water
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