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
Bayeux and Normandy Tour- June 11- 13, 2012
Tour of American sites
Bayeux June 6th, 1999.wmv
My sabbatical trip to the UK and Normandy area in the Spring of 1999- tagged along with the MVPA group from the US (Military Preservation Association
Visiting D-Day Beaches: Advice & Tips on Visiting the Normandy Beaches
The D-Day Beaches of Omaha, Utah, Juno, Sword and Gold were the sights of the massive Operation Overlord that began the liberation of Europe from Nazi Tyranny.
This video goes through advice for visiting the D-Day beaches, where to stay, some of the museums and basic tips about D-Day and Normandy.
Filmed in Normandy, France
Copyright Mark Wolters 2016
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United States soldiers move along a street in Bayeux after the D-Day invasion of ...HD Stock Footage
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United States soldiers move along a street in Bayeux after the D-Day invasion of Normandy, France during World War II.
US troops at Bayeux after the D-Day invasion of Normandy, France during World War II. Deserted roads and streets of Bayeux. Exteriors of a large building. US soldiers and French civilians move along a street. Army jeeps move along the street. Location: Normandy France. Date: June 26, 1944.
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Trump arrives in Normandy for D-Day commemoration
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How to Visit the D-Day Beaches
Mat gives you the complete overview of visiting the D-Day beaches of Normandy - how to get there, where to stay and what to see.
For more information or to join one of our Normandy tours, visit battlefields.com.au
Normandy DDay tour 1994 50th anniversary
my jeep 102 GKM on Peter Gray's (founder of the MVCG Military Vehicle Conservation Group, now MV Trust)1994 Normandy tour
Sgt Freddy Harris of Canada died on D.Day 6th June 1944 aged 23.
A compilation about just one Canadian Soldiers final resting place in Normandy. A lot of the photos I've used were taken around Arromanche - the Canadian beach head Juno was just along a bit further. The poem by Cyril Crain I first discovered at the D.Day museum in Portsmouth many years before I visted the Canadian cemetry at Beny Sur Mer in Normandy. Cyril Crain had written several poems as the experience of D.Day obviously left its' mark on him. When I located this grave there was a note with his neices address on for anyone with information with the Harris family to contact her.
Omaha Beach, Normandy
Vantage travelers visit two sites on Omaha Beach: Pointe du Hoc, a sheer cliff rising 328 feet up from the Channel, and the American Cemetery and Memorial. Pointe du Hoc had become a German stronghold, and as Allied soldiers exited their boats and waded to shore, the Nazis fired down on them. Brave US Army rangers scaled the cliff and successfully defended against German counterattack by seizing the artillery pieces. Two days after the invasion, the U.S. Army established the Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial in Colleville-sur-Mer, overlooking Omaha Beach. It was the first American cemetery in Europe in World War II, and, at 172.5 acres, it remains the largest American cemetery on the continent. In all, 9,387 Americans were laid to rest there, most of whom lost their lives on D-Day.
Ships of US Task Force at Bayeux harbor after the D-Day invasion of Normandy, Fra...HD Stock Footage
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Ships of US Task Force at Bayeux harbor after the D-Day invasion of Normandy, France during World War II.
US Task Force at Bayeux after the D-Day invasion of Normandy, France during World War II. Ships anchored in a harbor. A beach and houses in the foreground. A barrage balloon in the sky. US soldiers walk toward a shore. Location: Normandy France. Date: June 26, 1944.
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WWII U.S. Army Vehicles Parade, Goldwing ride in Normandy (pt3)
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Superbe défilé de véhicules militaires du club M.V.C.G à Isigny.
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Trip in Normandy during the commemoration of 68th anniversary of D-Day
Convoy of WW2 U.S army vehicles at Isigny sur Mer , Jeep ,Dodge, GMC,Harley-Davidson, Diamond T, M4 Sherman Tank etc.
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WW2 museum in Ambelteuse, Northern France. Visited in September 2010.
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D-Day anniversary: veteran speaks on behalf of fallen comrades
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John Jenkins, a veteran that landed on a Normandy beach speaks on behalf of fallen comrades.
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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.
Running Omaha Beach, Normandy, France
I just got back from visiting France. While in Normandy I visited my uncle Xavier in Bernay, the Bayeux Tapestry, and Omaha Beach (The bloodiest beach at which American troops landed on D-Day in WWII, June 6, 1944). When I got to the beach where the monument to The Brave sticks out of the sand like swords bursting through the Earth, I decided to see what it would have been like to run across the beach on that day.
Of course this re-enactment is highly imperfect. There are no more mines or obstacles or shell-holes. I am not jumping out of a landing craft. My gear is not a historically-accurate reproduction (though the 1950's French Ranger boots are pretty heavy). I am not in as good shape as those soldiers were, and I am not carrying 50 lbs of weapon, ammo, and equipment. And of course, no one is shooting at me.
But the tide was pretty darn low out there. The run was a little more than two minutes, but it felt like an eternity when I imagined what it might have been like under fire.
May we never have a need to send that many people into that deadly a situation ever again. That is the best way to pay tribute to their sacrifice.
Normandy: War-Torn Yet Full of Life
Rick Steves' Europe Travel Guide | In peaceful Normandy, we explore the half-timbered charm of Rouen, reflect on Monet's lily ponds in Giverny, peek in on local artisans, and set up an easel at Honfleur's harbor. We venture into composer Eric Satie's eccentric world and feast on the finest of Normandy cuisine. After pondering sacrifice and celebrating freedom on the D-Day beaches, we hike with pilgrims to the enchanted island abbey of Mont St-Michel.
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Original D-Day footage US Troops storming the Beaches of Normandy
US troops embarking on the journey to the beaches of Normandy with this incredible original D-Day footage where US Troops storm the Beaches of Normandy in a effort to secure the beachheads and silence the German gunners once and for all.
Filmed 0n June 6 1944.
Places to see in ( Bayeux - France ) British War Cemetery
Places to see in ( Bayeux - France ) British War Cemetery
The Bayeux War Cemetery is the largest Second World War cemetery of Commonwealth soldiers in France, located in Bayeux, Normandy. The cemetery contains 4,648 burials, mostly of the Invasion of Normandy.Opposite this cemetery stands the Bayeux Memorial which commemorates more than 1,800 casualties of the Commonwealth forces who died in Normandy and have no known grave.
The cemetery grounds were assigned to the United Kingdom in perpetuity by France in recognition of the sacrifices made by the British Empire in the defence and liberation of France during the war. In addition to the Commonwealth burials, there are 466 graves of German soldiers.
The cemetery contains the Cross of Sacrifice or War Cross, designed by Sir Reginald Blomfield for the Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC). Queen Elizabeth II and President of France Jacques Chirac attended ceremonies at the cemetery on June 6, 2004, marking the 60th anniversary of the D-Day invasion. Queen Elizabeth II and President of France François Hollande attended ceremonies at the cemetery on June 6, 2014, marking the 70th anniversary of the D-Day invasion.
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