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Starting point - Paris/CDG or Brussels International Airport

World War II Site Possibilities:

Normandy, France:

--Omaha Beach; Colleville and Vierville

--St. Laurent American Military Cemetery and Museum

--Longues-sur-Mer German Battery; Atlantic Wall sites

--Arromanches 'Port Mulberry' and Museum

--Pointe-du-Hoc; American Rangers scaling of the cliffs

--St. Mere Eglise Airborne landings and Museum

--Utah Beach

--Airborne 'Iron Mike' statue outside St. Mere Eglise on Merderet River

--St. Lo 'bocage' (the infamous hedgerows) country; Operation COBRA

--Gold/Juno/Sword beaches

--German Blockhaus at Ouistreham

--Pegasus Bridge and Museum

--British Cemetery in Bayeux

--La Cambe and Marigny German Cemeteries

Brittany:

--Avranches; Patton's route and breakout

--St. Malo

--St. James American Cemetery

Somme, Calais, and Oise:

--V-1 site north of Rouen at Val-Ygot

--V-2 sites/bunkers at Eperlecques Forest and near St. Omer

--V-1/2 site at Siracourt

--Battery Todt Museum (German Atlantic Wall bunker)

--Cape Griz-Nez (see England on a clear day!); Cape Blanc-Nez

--Compiegne Railroad Car and Museum; WW I armistice and WW II surrender of French to the Germans

Champagne:

--Reims Salle de Rendition Museum where the Germans surrendered in the West to the Allies/Eisenhower.

Luxembourg, Belgium and the Ardennes, and just into Germany:

--Hamm American Cemetery; GEN Patton buried here

--Diekirch Military Museum; features Battle of the Bulge

--Ettelbruck GEN Patton Statue

--Bastogne Museum and Monument

--Perimeter Positions on outskirts of Bastogne

--Malmedy; site of massacre (superb new museum)

--Skyline Drive through Luxembourg

--St. Vith and the Schnee Eifel

--La Gleize Museum; German Tiger Tank

--Elsenborn Ridge

--Henri-Chapelle American Cemetery

--German 'Siegfried Line' bunkers and 'Dragon's Teeth'

--Wallendorf

--Huertgen Forest

--Remagen Bridge Museum

Germany (starting point - Frankfurt or Munich):

--Peenemunde and Nordhausen V-2 sites

--Seelow Heights (Eastern Front) Museum and Monument

--Buchenwald

--Berlin: Checkpoint Charlie (Cold War but most interesting); Brandenburg Gate; Soviet War Memorial; Holocaust Memorial; many other terrific visits in Berlin

--Cecilienhof Palace; site of the Big Three - Churchill, Truman, and Stalin - Potsdam meeting in July 17-August 02 1944

--Frederick the Great's Palaces in Potsdam; not WW II, but truly incredible!

--Nuremberg.

--Munich and surroundings: Garmisch, Berchtesgaden, Eagle's Nest, Oberammergau, Dauchau, Deutsches Museum (one of the best!)

--Colditz Castle (Allied Officer POWs)

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Cultural Site Possibilities/Towns to Stay in:

--Brugge, Ieper (Ypres), Bastogne, and Mons in Belgium

--Versailles with its Hall of Mirrors

--Le Bourget Airport north of Paris, where Charles Lindbergh landed and today holds France's Air and Space Museum

--Bayeux, Mont St.-Michel, St. Malo, Amiens, Compiegne, Arras, Reims, Chateau Thierry, Montmedy, Verdun, and Thionville in France

--Spectacular Lighthouses and Scenery on the Cherbourg Peninsula.

--Diekirch, Larochette, and Luxembourg City in Luxembourg.

--'Big Six' French Cathedrals of Lille, Rouen, Reims, Chartres, Amiens, and Notre-Dame in Paris

--Bayeux Tapestry Museum

--French Champagne Winery Country Tour

--Beautiful Monshau south of Aachen

--tours start at either Brussels Int or Charles de Gaulle Airports; if clients want to stay in Brussels or Paris before or after the tour, this can be arranged.

Other Military Sites that can be Fit-In:

--Waterloo Battlefield/Museums; Wellington and Napoleon

--Agincourt and Crecy Battlefields/Museum

--Maginot Line Forts; Hackenberg

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World War I Site Possibilities:

Belgium Flanders:

--Ypres Salient of British Commonwealth fame; the town, Hill 60, Menin Gate, 'Last Post' Ceremony, St. Julien (site of first gas attack on the Canadians), Passchendaele, Langmark German Cemetery, Essex Farm Cemetery (John McCrae's famous poem 'In Flanders' Fields'), Tyne Cot Cemetery

French Somme and Pas de Calais:

--Vimy Ridge Canadian Monument (tunnel tour)

--Notre-Dame de Lorette

--Peronne 'Great War' Museum

--Battle of the Somme: Thievpal, Beaumont Hamel Canadian Park, Albert Trench Museum, Lochnagar Crater, Dellville Woods South African Grounds and Museum

--Villers-Bretonneaux (Australian forces)

--Bony American Cemetery and Bellicourt Monument

--Cantigny

Champagne and the Aisne-Marne:

--Chateau Thierry and Belleau Wood American battles

--Hill 204 Monument at Vaux

--Aisne-Marne and Oise-Aisne American Cemeteries

--Soissons battle

--Blanc Mont and Ferme de Navarin Monuments

Verdun:

--Ossuary Monument to the Missing

--Trench of the Bayonets

--Fleury Museum and Monument to the vanished town

--Fort Douaumont

Meuse-Argonne and St. Mihiel:

--Vauquois Hill; mine warfare

--Romagne American Cemetery

--Montfaucon American Monument

--St. Mihiel Salient Montsec American Monument

--St. Mihiel American Cemetery

--Hattonchatel/Vigneulles viewpoint

--SGT York site of heroics at Chatel-Chehery

--Lost Battalion Monument

--Pennsylvania State Monument

--Missouri Monument (Harry Truman fought in this area)