Utah, Omaha & US Airborne Sectors full Day Tour From Bayeux Utah
Get on board this Normandy battlefield tour and come with us on a full-day visit to the key beaches, sites, and museums linked to D-Day. On the morning of June 6, 1944, thousands of soldiers from the Allied forces landed on the beaches of Normandy in an attempt to liberate France from the German occupation. This marked the beginning of a fierce and deadly battle against surprised but well-trained Nazi troops.
Among the Allied troops, the Americans landed on two different beaches, later named Omaha and Utah. This Normandy battlefield tour will first take you to Omaha, where the deadliest of the landings took place. Even though bombings occurred before the landing itself, they failed to neutralize the German positions in that sector. In addition, troops and amphibious vehicles were disembarked too far from the shore, leading to an absolute failure and thousands of men being killed under heavy German fire. Learn more about the landing and the following days at the D-Day Museum right next to the beach.
After Omaha, the Normandy battlefield tour will take you to Utah Beach, the second beach where the American troops landed. There, the Musée du Débarquement will tell you all about the planning and the execution of D-Day from the American side. Your guide will also take you to the US military cemetery, where you can pay your respects to the ones who fell during D-Day and the Battle of Normandy that followed.
To finish the American sector, you will head to the Pointe du Hoc, a breathtaking cliff offering lunar landscapes and a magnificent viewpoint over the English Channel. Given the toughness of the operation, the Pointe du Hoc was given to the Rangers to land upon. The battle was rough, as the Pointe du Hoc had been built as a key point of the Atlantic Wall by the Germans – it was the highest point between Utah Beach and Omaha Beach and provided a great observation spot to notice any unfriendly arrivals from the sea. You can still see an artillery battery there and feel as if it was still 1944.
To finish your sightseeing tour of Normandy, you will go to the village of Sainte-Mère-Église, heart of the jump zone for the 82nd Airborne U.S. forces. Indeed, the D-Day landings did not only happen from the sea! Paratroopers rained on this village, and one of them famously got caught in the tower of the church. The Airborne Museum retraces the involvement of the paratroopers and the airborne forces in the D-Day landings.
This shared tour will have you picked up in the morning from a central location in Bayeux. At lunchtime, your English-speaking guide will point out the best places to eat depending on where you are.
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