Our day will begin at Patton’s Headquarters in Nehou where the general waited for the Third Army to become operational. We have a solemn finish at the American Cemetery, where we pay our respects to our fallen heroes. In the afternoon we visit Omaha Beach, where the 1st and 29th Divisions came ashore in some of the bloodiest action of the day. We then go to Pointe-du-Hoc to view the cliffs the Rangers scaled. Today, we will visit Utah Beach and its Museum of the Landings. At the Normandy hotel, we will convene for a welcome reception and dinner. We will visit Pegasus Bridge where the first action of D-Day occurred shortly after midnight on June 6. We depart in the morning from the Paris hotel and proceed to Normandy. If you would like to arrive in Paris a day early, we can book your extra night at the same hotel as our staff. We will specify the necessary Day 2 arrival time in your welcome package. Guests fly independently, normally on an overnight flight from the U.S. Kevin was previously the Research Director for WWII History and Military Heritage magazines and continues to write articles for each, and has appeared in numerous documentaries on the History Channel and American Heroes Channel.ĭay-By-Day Itinerary DAY 1 Flight to Paris He is the author of two books on the general, Patton’s War: An American General’s Combat Leadership and Patton’s Photographs: War as He Saw It. Army and also served as a historian at the U.S.

The historian for our In Patton’s Footsteps Tour is Kevin Hymel. On the In Patton’s Footsteps Tour, a fascinating WWII Tour, we visit the sites and battlefields significant to Patton’s Third Army, including Normandy, Brittany, Mont-St-Michel, the battlegrounds of Falaise Pocket, the German border, and the Battle of the Bulge, to understand how this maverick general helped win the war in Europe. He proved it in his race across France, his relief of the besieged town of Bastogne and his drive into Germany. Patton believed in fulfilling the unforgivable minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.

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