NORMANDY TOUR
 This tour of Normandy will have an Irish flavour.
There were many Irish in the Airborne forces who fought at Pegasus Bridge. Many are buried there and the cemetery at Ranvile contains the graves of Royal Ulster Rifles.
This tour gives the visitor a good flavour of what D-Day was all about. Professional lectures are delivered and a social emphasis centres around dinner every evening.
There is time built in to visit locations of a non-military nature and there is time to avail of shopping.
  Our tours will commence with our arrival by Irish Ferries M.V. Normandy at the port of Cherbourg; we disembark under the imposing shadow of the 19th. Century Fort Roule. The fort was a German strongpoint housing a battery of four 105mm guns and was finally captured on 25th.June 1944 after very heavy fighting during which the town sustained very severe damage. Within 30 minutes of our departure from Cherbourg we will arrive at the town of Saint-Mere-Eglise.
  It was in this area that the American 101st. and 82nd.Airborne dropped between 00.30hrs and 04.30hrs on the morning of D-Day. Anyone who has seen that excellent film The Longest Day will already feel themselves familiar with this charming little town. It has changed very little since that historic day in the history of civilisation. It has a superb museum dedicated to the Airborne Forces, the centre pieces are a DC 3 aircraft and a glider, across from the museum, on the square is the church which houses a beautiful stained glass window commemorating the Airborne fallen.

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