Private Day Tour Omaha beach and Pointe du Hoc

To begin our discovery of Omaha beach, we will first position ourselves on the heights which dominate the beach, at its eastern end. You will then benefit from an extraordinary point of view over the 7 kilometers of Omaha and we will then discuss in detail the operations that took place there on June 6, 1944. Then, secondly, we will reach the beach that you can browse freely, at your own pace, a few tens of meters from the German position coded "Wn62", which dominates this beach sector.

The "Widerstandnest 62" is a German fortified position which, on June 6, 1944, resisted the assault of the men of the 116th Infantry Regiment of the United States until the beginning of the afternoon. Unfortunately, it caused many victims among the GIs, many of whom have been resting since then, a few hundred meters away, in the American military cemetery at Colleville.

The third stage of the day is a very symbolic place of the American commitment in Europe during the Second World War, and is particularly charged with emotions: at your own pace, you will discover the American military cemetery of Colleville sur mer, where 9387 soldiers are buried. killed on D-Day or during the Battle of Normandy.

For the vast majority of our customers - often based outside France - visiting the battlefields of Normandy is almost a once-in-a-lifetime event. Also, in order to give them the opportunity to also discover the very interesting museum collections which evoke D-Day in Omaha, we give them the possibility of devoting approximately one hour to the visit of one of the four museums of the sector presenting landing operations and exhibiting important collections of uniforms, equipment, vehicles, and materials. If you wish, you will have the choice between: - Overlord Museum, in Colleville-sur-mer; - The "Big Red One" Museum, in Colleville-sur-mer; - The Omaha Beach Memorial Museum, in Saint Laurent-sur-mer. - The D-Day Omaha Museum, in Vierville-sur-mer. As the visit to a museum is therefore optional, the entrance fee is not included in the circuit. But you will benefit from the reduced rate granted to Memory Tracks.

After the meal break, we will then follow the beach of Omaha beach towards the west (along the sectors "Easy Red", "Easy Green", "Dog Red", "Dog White", "Dog Green", and " Charlie"). Before heading for La Pointe du Hoc, we will discuss the tragic fate of the men of "A" Company (116th/29th Inf) who landed just in front of the German fortifications preventing access to the Vierville valley.

Arrived at Pointe du Hoc, on the remains of the formidable German artillery battery which threatened Omaha and Utah, we will discuss the conquest of the position by the 2nd Ranger Battalion commanded by Lieutenant-Colonel James Earl Rudder, but also the two days and two nights of uninterrupted combat which followed this one. Nearly 80 years after the end of the fighting, you will most likely be gripped by the landscape, still shaken by the numerous aerial and naval bombardments of D-Day and the weeks that preceded it.

We will then begin our return by taking magnificent little roads in the Normandy countryside, in landscapes that have hardly changed since D-Day. If you wish, before joining the main roads, we can stop for a moment at the German military cemetery of La Cambe where 21,222 soldiers killed during the Battle of Normandy are buried. You will probably be struck by the very special atmosphere of the place, very different from that of the American cemetery of Colleville sur mer that you will have discovered a few hours earlier. ​

At the express request of our customers, and if respecting the timetables allows it, it may be possible to visit the "Museum of Underwater D-Day Wrecks", a completely atypical museum of great interest, which brings together a large number of materials and objects engulfed under the waves during D-Day, and brought to the surface in the early 1970s by the company of Jacques Lemonchois. Entrance is not included in the tour but you will benefit from the reduced rate granted to Memory Tracks.