To the East of Saint-Mere-Eglise is the first of the landing beaches, Utah, it is the location of an interesting museum, the first of several which show many aspects of the beach landings in considerable detail.
Our base for the tour is the historic town of Bayeux which has featured prominently in history since Norman times. Between Utah Beach and Bayeux there are a number of locations of great interest, numbered among these are:

•  Point du Hoc a location made immortal by the outstanding action of the
American 2nd.ranger Battalion under the command of Col. James Rudder. After 2 days of heavy fighting the remaining 90 out of the original 225 Rangers finally secured their objective.

•  Omaha Beach and the imposing American Cemetery of Collville-sur-Mer, which is the final resting place of 9,386 U.S. servicemen. This location featured in the film Saving Pte. Ryan . These locations MUST be visited at least once in everybody’s lifetime.

•  South of Omaha Beach is located the German Cemetery of La Cambe which houses 21,160 graves . We see their names and ages, whatever their reason for serving the Third Reich they gave their lives in the execution of what they saw as their duty.

•  Our next area of special interest is the town of Bayeux. It is home to a number of excellent museums, notably the Memorial Museum of the Battle of Normandy,
The Museum of the Bayeux Tapestry, this is like a newsreel from the 11th.Century.
The Charles de Gaulle museum. It is the location for a large British cemetery.
To the north of Bayeux there is the battery at Longues-sur-Mer where 3 guns of the 4 gun battery are still in situ.

•   Our next area of interest is eastward at the area of the Orne River And The
Caen Canal, it was here at 00.20 on 6th.June ’44 that the gliders of the 6th.British Airborne Division landed and secured the bridges over the river and canal to ensure that the troops could move inland from the beaches on the eastern flank of the landing area. There is a first class museum at this location commemorating the event and we will visit the cemetery at Ranville where troops of the Royal Ulster Rifles who were killed in this action are buried.

•   The Café Gondree was the first building liberated on D-Day it is unchanged
to this day. We move north to the landing beaches of Sword, Juno and Gold in the British and Canadian sector, and we must not forget the French whose Marines landed at Ouistreham under the command of Commandant Phillipe Kieffer.

  Along the British and Canadian beaches stretch we have the Royal Marines Museum and a particularly interesting German relic, it’s the command Bunker which was overing the Orne estuary, it has 5 floors, was captured intact. To the east of the Orne River is the site of the Merville Battery, this was a very significant defence point on the coast.

•   Our next area of interest brings us some distance inland from the Channel coast, first to the town of Caen where over the period from 9th.July to 29th.July’44 British and Canadian forces engaged in fierce fighting against the 12th.SS Panzerdivision and 272nd.Infantry division to liberate the town. It is now the home of an excellent museum which incorporates The Memorial for Peace.This place demands much of your time and a visit here is a day long experience.

•   Next we move south to the historic town of Falaise, this is the birthplace of William the Conqueror. When in Falaise on 16th.and 17th.August ‘44 the 1st.Canadian Army commanded by Lt. Gen. Henry Crerar finally defeated German resistance in the town the British and American armies, supported by Polish and French divisions, were able to engage in the last big battle for Normandy by encircling and capturing about 110,000 German soldiers in the Chambois Pocket.

Operation Overlord had succeeded.

Here is an area map