MHT’s Holiday Tour of !

Utah Beach!

Honfluer

Gold Beach!

Cross it off your Bucket List in 2021/22! MHT has expanding our traditional D-Day tour to include New Years in Normandy and ! Enjoy the Landing Beaches, Cathedrals and Christ- mas Markets in romantic cities like Caen, Rouen, Honfluer and Paris. Bring in the New Year with a wonder- ful French dinner on New Years Eve!

Military Historical Tours is proud to offer another in our series of signature European Battlefield Tours on this historic Return of D-Day—Normandy. Our tours include exclusive MHT events, tour booklet & sites other tours bypass. Information on the events that are offered on your particular expedition will be included in your reg- No sleeping in istration information packet. All of these things, along with the most experienced staff foxholes this time! of Program Directors, Battlefield Tour Leaders and Historians will combine to make your trip the most enjoyable, relaxing, entertaining Tour Price: $ 3,195* and educational experience possible. We welcome your phone (Based on Double Occupancy) calls, letters or e-mails to discuss your tour with one of our Battle- Single Room Supplement: $ 895* field Specialists. Call us at 703-590-1295 we look forward to hear- Post Tour: $ 650* (Based on Double Occupancy) ing from you! Daily Itinerary Single Room Supplement: $ 195*

Tour Price Includes: Day 1 – December 27 – Departure. Depart today from your hometown air- port for an International Portal for the flight to Airport Par- 4—Star Hotel Accommodations at Caen- is (CDG). Dinner and beverages served aboard flight. Normandy & Paris * Day 2 – December 28 – Arrival in France. Arrive at CDG in the morning Air-conditioned deluxe motorcoach and make your way to the rally point and make the drive to Normandy. Enjoy with onboard restroom the Holiday Market outside the Hotel. Hotel: Caen Moderne Caen. Meals: * L & D - On Own. Emergency Medical & Evacuation Insurance Days 3 – 6 – December 29 – Janu- * ary 1 – Normandy. Our hotel in Meals as indicated in itinerary Caen will be our home base for ex- * ploring Normandy. Omaha Beach Historical trip information packet, containing was the most intensely contested maps & other tour information. beach on D-Day. It is six miles wide * – the largest of all the five beaches. Admission fees to all sites, and The entire beach was overlooked by special attractions listed cliffs which made attacking the area * very difficult. You will walk the Services of experienced Tour Leader sands where the liberation of and English-speaking local guides.

France began 74 years ago. 29th Airfare not included: Get your own or Infantry Division. Our tour will Book Optional MHT Airfare: Round-trip include the seawall, bunkers, and economy or business class airfare other German defenses along the from your hometown to Paris CDG

beach. The western half of the US price quoted upon registration! beach was assigned to the untested * - Price based on € conversion rate at final billing 29th Infantry Division. Vier- by the night of the 6th of June, ville Draw where the 29th 20,000 men and 1,700 vehicles landed was featured in both were ashore. It was for his actions "The Longest Day " and that day that Brigadier General "Saving Private Ryan." 1st Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., Assistant Infantry Division. The east- Division Commander, earned the ern half of the beach was as- first Medal of Honor of the divi- signed to battle-hardened 1st sion. Utah Beach D-Day Muse- Infantry Division. The Big um. Built on the very beach Red One stormed ashore and where the first American troops landed. A restored, original began fighting for its life on a B26 “Marauder” bomber is among the displays. Overlord strip of beach near Coleville- . This privately-owned museum just outside the sur-Mer that had been Cemetery gate chronicles the period of the Allied landing un- Cathedral outside of Arro- marked the "Easy Red" on til the liberation of Paris. The collection was assembled by manches Christmas Display battle maps. Slowly, spurred someone who was both a witness to the conflict and involved by the individual heroism of many individuals, the move in- in the reconstruction of Normandy. Personal items from indi- land got underway. Pointe du Hoc. The 2nd Ranger Battal- vidual soldiers and armored fighting vehicles from the six ion scaled the 100-foot cliffs to eliminate the German heavy armies in Normandy are presented in set displays showing guns that could threaten both Utah and Omaha beaches. At a over 35 vehicles, tanks and guns. La Cambe. At the somber high cost, they successfully defended against determined Ger- German military cemetery at La Cambe, 21,500 German man counterattacks for two days. The Pointe du Hoc Ranger troops are buried, including Tiger Tank "Ace" Michael Witt- Monument was erected by the French to honor the incredible mann. The design contrast with the Normandy American courage of the Rangers. American Airborne Landings. In Cemetery is striking. A Boeing PT17 Stearman and Piper L4 the early hours of June 6, 1944, the American airborne forces Grasshopper aircraft fly from the airstrip in aerial displays and successfully executed some of the most difficult and challeng- offer sightseeing trips along the landing beaches. ing missions of D-Day. Their objectives were to secure the Pegasus Bridge. The bridges across the River Orne and the invasion right Caen canal had to be captured and held intact to enable the flank against seaborne reinforcements to cross. The result was textbook German counter- example of a successful operation. Drive along the British and attacks and se- Canadian landing beaches. Contrast the terrain differences cure the cause- between these beaches ways off Utah and Omaha/Utah Beach. 82nd beaches to be visited Airborne Divi- later. Arromanches. son. Paratroop- The remains of one of Cathedral ers of the 82nd the two artificial in Bauex were to capture "Mulberry" harbors objectives in the erected in the landing area west of the Allied amphibious invasion, specifically the operation may still be town of Sainte-Mère-Eglise and the La Fière bridge. Ste seen. Port-en-Bessin. Mere Eglise. Another site made famous by the film, "The A picturesque fishing port that was home to one of the Longest Day." A mannequin of a paratrooper hangs from the 'Pipelines Under the Sea' (PLUTO) pumping stations. Longes church spire. The Airborne Forces Museum has a C-47 -sur-Mer The German coastal defense battery at, probably troop transport aircraft that flew in the invasion and a rare the best remaining example of such a battery in Normandy. WACO glider on display. 101st Airborne Division. The Bayeux. The first city of the Battle of Normandy to be liberat- 101st Airborne Division's objectives were to secure the four ed, and on 16 June 1944 General Charles de Gaulle made the causeway exits behind Utah Beach to ensure the exit route for first of two major speeches in Bayeux in which he made clear the 4th Infantry Division from the beach later that morning. that France sided with the Allies. The buildings in Bayeux Brecourt Manor. The 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment’s were virtually untouched during the Battle of Normandy, the assault by Easy Company on the German howitzer battery that German forces being fully involved in defending Caen from was disrupting the exit leading off Utah Beach was immortal- the Allies. After a celebration dinner we welcome the New ized in the series “Band of Brothers”. It is often cited as a Year with the great people of Caen Hotel: Caen Moderne. classic example of small-unit tactics and leadership in over- Meals: B- Included each day. L & D - On Own. D - Includ- coming a larger enemy force. Utah Beach. The westernmost ed last night. of the five landing beaches. The beach was Day 7 – January 2 – Paris. We situated on the east at the edge of a marshland will bid farewell to Normandy zone which had been flooded by the Germans. and head for Paris. Rouen. The Only four causeways could be used to cross capital of Normandy. What this marshland and reach inlands. 4th Infan- makes this city unique is its in- try Divison. The objective of the 4th, sup- credible Gothic architecture cou- ported by airborne landings of the 82nd and pled with half-timbered medieval 101st Airborne Divisions, was to secure a street houses. A stroll through beachhead on the Cotentin Peninsula. The the quaint old streets of Rouen, in division only lost 197 men during the day and Upper Normandy, feels like a walk back in time. Cathédrale Notre- at Cana); Musée d'Orsay Dame. In the heart of the old town, it is one (Highlights: Impressionists: of the largest and most impressive Gothic Monet, Ma-net, Degas, Cé- cathedrals in France. The cathedral's main zanne); Georges Pompidou structure was built in the 13th century but Center (Modern Art); Musée the building was not completed until the de l'Orangerie (“Water Lilies” 16th century. Tour du Gros-Horloge (Big murals by Claude Monet); Clock Tower). The huge decorative clock Musée Rodin (Highlights: The dates from 1889 and still serves its time- Thinker, Dante’s Inferno, The keeping functions for the city. Joan of Kiss) & Hop On-Hop Off Bus Arc. Joan was captured by Anglo- Tour. Evenings in Paris at lei- Burgundian forces, tried for witchcraft and sure. Hotel: Concorde Mont- heresy and burned at the stake in 1431 in Cooking class in Paris parnasse Paris. Meals: B - the city square. Hotel: Concorde Mont- Included. L & D - On Own. parnasse Paris. Meals: B - Included. L & D - On Own. Day 9 - January 4—Departure. Individual departure on Day 8 – January 3 – Paris. Free day to explore the “City of your own schedule to the airport for your return flight to the Light.” with these possibilities: : Site of Napo- USA, arriving the same day. leon’s Tomb and the French National . Cultur- Post Tour 4 – 6 January al: , Notre Dame Cathedral, Paris Opera House, Day 9 – January 4 – French Cooking Class. Individuals Montmartre —Sacré Coeur Church, Champs-Elysées & Arc interested in learning to get a closer look at French Cuisine de Triomphe. can stay one extra day and enjoy a day long cooking class. Fountain at Versailles Art Museums: Night on your own to enjoy the “City of Light” Hotel: Con- The corde Montparnasse Paris. Meals: B - Included. L & D - (Highlights: On Own.

Mona Lisa, Day 10 – January 5 – Tour of the Palace at Versailles. Winged Victory, Spend your last day in France exploring the grounds and Pal- Venus di Milo, ace at Versailles. Hotel: Concorde Montparnasse Paris. Consecration of Meals: B - Included. L & D - On Own. the Emperor I, The Day 9 – January 6 – Departure. Individual departure on

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