The Normandy Campaign: Beaches and Beyond

The Normandy Campaign explores the Normandy breakout, code name Operation Cobra, the Allied plan to take Brittany and trap the remaining German army in Normandy.

By the evening of D-Day, more than 150,000 Allied troops had landed on the coast of France and had breached Adolf Hitler’s once impregnable “Atlantic Wall.” The war, however, was a long way from over. For the next 80-days the world fixated its eyes on the battles raging in Normandy. After almost five years of war, the Allies were poised to decide the fate of Adolf Hitler’s vaunted “1,000 Year Reich.”

On The Normandy Campaign: Beaches and Beyond Tour we take guests from the D-Day beaches to the inland campaigns in the heart of Normandy. We follow the American, British and Canadian armies as they fight for Caen and Cherbourg; stand with the GIs of the 30th Infantry Division as they stop the last great German offensive in Normandy in its tracks and see where Free Polish forces closed the German’s last avenue of escape at Falaise. We then follow the Allies as they race to liberate Paris.

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