Top 7 Omaha Utah Landing Beaches Sights Private Trip from Paris

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1. 1

   Bois de Boulogne

   07:00 Pick up from Your hotel in Paris and departure destination Normandy by our air conditioned comfortable Mercedes E220 business-class car by 2 people or by Mercedes minivan from 3 participants. 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. This trip is Live guided.

   Si passa senza fermarsi•Ingresso gratuito•Vedi sulla mappa

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   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).

   1 ora•Ingresso gratuito

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   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.

   30 minuti•Ingresso gratuito•Vedi sulla mappa

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   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).

   40 minuti•Ingresso gratuito•Vedi sulla mappa

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   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).

   40 minuti•Ingresso gratuito

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   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.

   20 minuti•Ingresso gratuito

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   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).

   1 h 30 min•Ingresso incluso

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   Airborne Museum

   16:00 - 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. 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.

   2 ore•Ingresso incluso•Vedi sulla mappa

9. 9

   Bois de Boulogne

   21:30 Arrival in Paris depending on traffic situation and Your hotel location. Drop off at Your hotel.

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