How to Visit the D-Day Battlefields of Normandy
Battlefield historian Mat McLachlan gives you all the information you need to plan a visit to the D-Day battlefields of Normandy. Mat will show you how to get there, where to stay and what to see on your once-in-a-lifetime journey to Normandy!
ABOUT US: Mat McLachlan is a leading international battlefield historian and has spent more than two decades walking the great battlefields of history. His tour company, Mat McLachlan Battlefield Tours, takes travellers and history lovers to battlefields all over the world, in Europe, Asia, the Pacific and North America, escorted by the world’s leading military historians.
HISTORY OVERVIEW: D-Day was the Allied invasion of Western Europe, which took place on the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944. Over the next three months American, British, Canadian and other Allied troops pushed the Germans back and liberated France.
LOCATION: The Normandy region is in France, about 150 miles west of Paris. You’ll need 2-3 days to see all the sites, but can see the main ones in a (long) day-trip from Paris.
GETTING THERE: Hire a car or catch a train from Paris, or join an organised tour.
WHERE TO STAY: The two main towns are Bayeux (for the American Sector) and Caen (for the British/Canadian Sector). There is a range of accommodation in each.
TOURS: Mat McLachlan Battlefield Tours offers fully-escorted tours of the Normandy battlefields. Visit battlefields.com.au/normandy-d-day-tour (Australia) or battletours.com/normandy-d-day-landing-tour (USA).
GUIDEBOOKS: I recommend ‘Walking D-Day’ by Paul Reed and ‘D-Day: Normandy Landing Beaches’ by Major and Mrs Holt.
VISIT OUR WEBSITE: Our full range of tours throughout Europe, Asia, North America and the Pacific can be found on our websites (tailored for US or Australian visitors):
US site: battletours.com
Australian site: battlefields.com.au
I look forward to helping you walk in the footsteps of heroes!
- Mat McLachlan
NORMANDY, FRANCE (BAYEUX)
For the past couple of days, my mom and I rented a car in Bayeux and spent 3 days touring the Northwest region of France. Thanks for watching our journey :)
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Trump, Macron Tour Normandy American Cemetery to Commemorate D-Day
President Donald Trump is playing down differences with France over Iran, telling French President Emmanuel Macron that they both agree Tehran should not have nuclear weapons.
Trump reiterated his offer to reopen negotiations with Tehran over its nuclear program. Speaking Thursday with Trump in Caen, France, Macron agreed that a new negotiation needs to be opened with Iran.
The U.S. withdrew last year from a nuclear deal between Iran and world powers and re-imposed harsh economic sanctions on Iran. Trump recently sent military assets to the region, citing intelligence reports of threats of attacks from Iran.
Other signatories to the Iran deal — France, Germany, Britain, Russia and China — have been struggling to keep Iran in the deal and reduce tension.
Security, the fight against terrorism, instability in the Middle East, trade and Iran are all topics President Trump and French President Emmanuel Macron are expected to discuss in a meeting that has gotten under way in Caen, France.
The two are meeting Thursday after attending a ceremony at Normandy American Cemetery marking the 75th anniversary of D-Day. Afterward, Trump flew to Caen where he and first lady Melania Trump were welcomed with a red carpet, French troops and a military band.
At the D-Day ceremony, Trump and Macron chatted and shared warm handshakes, but they disagree on key issues, including climate change, Iran and world trade.
President Donald Trump, French President Emmanuel Macron and their wives are paying respects at the Normandy American Cemetery near Omaha Beach where allied forces landed in a D-Day invasion that helped free Europe from Nazi occupation.
First lady Melania Trump laid a bouquet of white flowers at the manicured cemetery.
Rows of white crosses mark graves that were decorated with tiny American and French flags to mark the 75th anniversary of D-Day.
President Donald Trump, French President Emmanuel Macron and their wives are overlooking a beachfront in Normandy, France, where American and allied forces landed in an invasion that helped free Europe from Nazi occupation.
Trump is at the Normandy American Cemetery near Omaha Beach Thursday to mark the 75th anniversary of D-Day.
Following a program and gun salute, the four walked to an overlook and stood silently as a bugler played “Taps.” They surveyed a map of the invasion and watched as fighter jets and planes, including some leaving trails of red, white and blue smoke, flew overhead.
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Normandy American Cemetery
Situated on a cliff overlooking Omaha Beach, the cemetery is just east of St. Laurent-sur-Mer. The site covers 172.5 acres and contains the graves of 9,387 American War Dead, most of whom died during the landings and ensuing operations. The walls of a semicircular garden on the east side of the memorial contain the names of 1,557 missing.
Heroes return to Normandy for 75th anniversary of D-Day
World News Tonight anchor David Muir traveled to France with a group of veterans to remember the invasion that changed the course of WWII.
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75th Anniversary of D-Day ceremony at Normandy American Cemetery
June 6, 2019 marks the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings along the Normandy coast during World War II.
Follow live our ceremony at Normandy American Cemetery to honor and remember the service members who landed in France during World War II and all those who contributed to our nation's effort in the liberation of Europe.
Normandy TOUR of WWII D-Day Historical Sites | NORMANDY | 4K VIDEO
With D-DAY MEMORY TOUR, you will experience an unforgettable adventure. Immersed in the heart of Normandy, in the region of Sainte-Mere-Eglise, you will travel back in time during the liberation of Europe in the summer of 1944. Equipped with the same uniforms as the American soldiers wore the day they landed on the coast of France, you will re-live their amazing journey using only the supplies they were given. Your platoon will travel by Jeep, the very same Jeeps that were used during the war and technical support will be present at all times.
Normandy German Cemetery, Colleville-sur-Mer, Normandy, France, Europe
La Cambe is a military war grave cemetery, located close to Bayeux, France. Presently containing in excess of 21,000 German military personnel of World War II, it is maintained and managed by the German War Graves Commission. La Cambe was originally the site of a battlefield cemetery, established by the United States Army Graves Registration Service during the war, where American and German soldiers, sailors and airmen were buried in two adjacent fields. After the war had ended on the continent and paralleling the work undertaken to repair all the devastation that the war had caused, work began on exhuming the American remains and transferring them in accordance with the wishes of their families. Beginning in 1945, the Americans transferred two-thirds of their fallen from this site back to the United States while the remainder were reinterred at the new permanent American Cemetery and Memorial at Colleville-sur-Mer, which overlooks the Omaha Beach landing site. Because of the pace of the war, the German war dead in Normandy were scattered over a wide area, many of them buried in isolated field graves or small battlefield cemeteries. In the years following the war, the German War Graves Commission sought to establish six main German cemeteries in the Normandy area. La Cambe, as an existing site of German war dead that was already informally cared for by the German War Graves Commission, was a natural choice for one of the six formal sites. After the signing in 1954 of the Franco-German Treaty on War Graves, La Cambe was formally cared for, allowing the remains of 12,000 German soldiers to be moved in from 1,400 locations in the French departments of Calvados and the Orne.
La Cambe was officially inaugurated as a German War Cemetery in September 1961. Since that date, the remains of more than 700 soldiers have been found on battlefields across Normandy, and reinterred at La Cambe. Layout and landscaping of the site began immediately after formal handover, which today has created at its centre a large tumulus, flanked by two statues and topped by a large dark cross in basalt lava, which marks the resting place for 207 unknown and 89 identified German soldiers, interred together in a mass grave. The tumulus is surrounded by 49 rectangular grave fields with up to 400 graves each. On the large green grass area the graves are identified by flat grave markers.
D-Day Heroes: Veterans Lay Wreaths At Bayeux Cemetery | Forces TV
A convoy of London taxis has brought around 100 veterans to Normandy to lay wreaths at the Bayeux Commonwealth War Grave Cemetery. Located in the first town liberated on D-Day, the cemetery is the largest Second World War cemetery of Commonwealth soldiers in France, with nearly 5,000 graves. Most of the 4,000 British soldiers buried here died during the invasion, 73 years ago.
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Interviewed in this report are veterans Major Joseph Mark and Ken Hay formerly of the 4th Battalion, the Dorset Regiment.
D-Day: The Queen attends ceremonies at Bayeux in Normandy,
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WWII Battlefield Return : Heroes return to Normandy 74th DDAY Anniversary
Heroes Return To Normandy: Video Highlight
June 1, 2018 the Best Defense Foundation took 8 WWII Veterans back to Normandy where they fought.
Dick Klein - 101st Airborne Division
Francis Turner - 17th Armored Engineer Battalion of the 2nd Armored Division
George Ciampa - 607th Quartermaster Graves Registration Company
Jack Myers - 692nd Tank Destroyer Battalion
Jack Foy - 347th Infantry Regiment, 87th Division
Boris Stern - 424th Infantry Regiment, 106th Division
George Smilanich - 67th Armored Regiment, 2nd Armored Division
Clinton Riddle - 325 Glider Infantry Regiment of the 82nd Airborne Division
While in Normandy, we visited the Brittany American Cemetery. It was a solemn time for all of us as we looked out at the sea of white crosses that represented so many heroes who lost their lives way too young. While we all stood in silence, Jack Foy began to speak. His words left us all speechless and so proud to be American. Watch the video to hear it!
Please enjoy watching their marvelous return back to France.
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In April of 2006 Donnie Edwards brought WWII veterans back to their battlefields for the first time. Since that time he has accompanied hundreds of WWII veterans from the top of Mount Suribachi in Japan to the top of Eagles Nest in Germany. Donnie works tirelessly to fulfill the wishes and needs of our veterans and to give them the honor and respect they so readily deserve.
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Normandy Liberation - War Graves (1945)
Normandy, France.
Street sign showing directions. Road from Le Havre to Dieppe, convoy of vehicles passing by.
Road at Valmartin, convoy passing. Street signs showing Dieppe getting closer and closer.
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Street sign reading Dieppe - French and British flags crossed. Convoy of vehicles passing by. Several shots of vehicles and scrap metal (remains of vehicles) on side of road. Convoy advancing along the road.
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Remembering the fallen heroes
A virtual tour of the WW2 cemeteries in Bayeux and Colleville sur mer in Normandy .
This is a tribute to all of the brave men and women who never returned home...
I salute you all............... R.I.P
LIVE Replay | May and Macron attend D-Day 75th anniversary ceremony in Normandy
British Prime Minister Theresa May and French President Emmanuel Macron attend Franco-British memorial ceremony to mark the 75th anniversary of D-Day landings, laying the first stone of a British memorial at Ver-Sur-Mer. French President Emmanuel Macron will then meet two French veterans, Leon Gautier and Jacques Lewis in Bayeux.
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Visit to the WW2 landing beaches in Normandy.17-7-2012.
War Cemetery at Colville,Omaha Beach.
The Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial is a World War II cemetery and memorial in Colleville-sur-Mer, Normandy, France, that honors American troops who died in Europe during World War II.
D-Day Tales from Bayeux military cemetery, Normandy WW2
The tragic story of how up to 30 Green Howard soldiers were killed in one incident during the Normandy fighting, on 11 June 1944. Video illustrating the graves and individual stories of some of the soldiers killed in the so-called 'Cornfield' incident. Originally broadcast on Periscope. Dad's memoirs recounted in Fighting Through from Dunkirk to Hamburg.
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FightingThroughPodcast.co.uk. The Fighting Through Podcast offers first hand accounts of veterans connected to my dad’s war. Dunkirk, D-Day; Interviews, memories & much more. Over 150 five-star ratings in iTunes.
Normandy: The American Cemetery
On a bluff overlooking Omaha Beach is the final resting place for over 9300 American soldiers, killed on D-Day, and in the weeks thereafter.
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