Private Tour American D-Day Airborne Experience
Overview
Available languages
8 hours
Mobile ticket
Unfold the D-Day stories with your local tour guide.
This tour is designed to bring to life some of the highlights of the Airborne objectives, and follow Easy Company through Normandy. Excellent tour for the fans of Band of Brothers.
Strictly private tour. Pick up at the location of your choice Bayeux or Caen area. Other locations please enquire first before booking.
Additional Info
Public transportation options are available nearby
Infants are required to sit on an adult’s lap
Suitable for all physical fitness levels
What To Expect
Sainte-Mere-Eglise
A small and quiet rural community, Saint-Mère-Eglise was of great importance as it straddled all communications to Cherbourg. While nearly 13,000 American paratroops were being dropped under a full moon into the confusion of the surrounding countryside, famously one company was dropped, at about 1:45am, onto the village square and cattle market of this now world-famous village.
In the early hours of June 6, 1944, parachutes on Normandy began. A Douglas C-47 transport aircraft belonging to the 439th Troop Carrier Group and carrying the company officer of the 506th PIR Easy Company, 101st Airborne, is hit by the German anti-aircraft defense and is trying to land. It crashed at 1:12 hitting a hedge, killing all crew members and parachutists on board.
Options
Private Tour American D-Day Airborne Experience
Pickup included
What‘s Included
Private transportation
Bottled water
Air-conditioned vehicle
Private tour guide
Lunch
Gratuities
Pickup points
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Cancellation Policy
All sales are final. No refund is available for cancellations.
Reviews
2 reviews
Total reviews and rating from Viator & Tripadvisor
A 5 Star Review!!! Just do it!!
Barbara S,Apr 20, 2025
- Review from Viator
5.00I am 78 years old and my Father and his brothers - and many of my Uncles and Cousins served in related D-Day invasion- were wounded and died…. I did a tour in 2017 - that was stunning….breathtaking and haunting…. But this Private Tour and the wonderful WWIi Expert did so much more…. he made us live it minute by minute - with the Paratroopers - the Church where they were hung up on the roof…. the Resistance….street fighting…. walking through the …fields…blood stained churches - walls riddled with bullet holes…. then the beaches….mystical sea…skies… finally the Cemetery …. overwhelming as we arrived at the playing of Taps…. Please if you have the time - take this walk through history - this Tour Guide….is THE EXPERT! My two Grandsons felt it….. .saw first hand - were young men died - who were their ages….lost their lives …where their dreams - ended….by bullets or drowning… I am forever thankful we walked on those hallowed grounds…. And we all cried… .at what they did for this world… I’m at peace….the torch has been passed…. my Grandsons will keep those memories forever… Merci!
Terrific guide
Beth M,Jul 10, 2024
- Review from Viator
5.00The day was wonderful. Such a terrific guide. We learned and saw so much. Great day! I don’t know how it could have been better.
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