A great review from a great couple

One of the privileges of guiding people through the landing beaches and battlefields of Normandy is that I get to meet such interesting people and spend time in such good company. I greatly enjoyed guiding Connie and William and they were kind enough to give me a lovely testimonial. Many thanks and very nice to have met you. Gen. Eisenhower speaking with 1st Lt. Wallace C. Strobel and men of Company E 502nd PIR [...]

By |2019-11-25T01:26:33+01:00March 31st, 2015|Categories: Uncategorized|0 Comments

Christmas Day Truce 1914

Christmas Day Truce 1914. One hundred years ago this month the famous Christmas truce and football match between British and German soldiers took place in this very field at Ploegsteert, near Ypres in Belgium. A small oasis of humanity in one of the most devastating wars known to mankind. We would like to wish all our friends a happy and peaceful Christmas and a healthy and prosperous New Year. (I would also like to acknowledge [...]

By |2019-11-25T01:26:33+01:00December 16th, 2014|Categories: Uncategorized|0 Comments

D-Day Tours Review from South Africa

D Day Tours review from Capetown, South Africa. A lovely review and some very kind words from Chet and Annemarie Sainsbury. It was a pleasure to meet them both and to be their guide for a few days. They kindly sent us some photographs of their tour too, and permission to use them History Brought Alive Although we were pretty ignorant about the D-Day Invasion and had no personal connection to that part of WW2, it [...]

By |2019-11-25T01:26:33+01:00August 15th, 2014|Categories: Uncategorized|0 Comments

Queen Elizabeth II World War 2

Princess Elizabeth as a truckdriver in the Womens Royal Army Corps. 70 years ago, Princess Elizabeth, then a truck driver with the Women's Royal Army Corps, poses proudly beside her vehicle. Next week H.M. Queen Elizabeth II will lead the U.K. & Commonwealth in giving thanks to our D-Day veterans on the 70th anniversary of one of the most heroic military operations in history.

By |2019-11-25T01:26:34+01:00May 30th, 2014|Categories: Uncategorized|0 Comments

UTAH Beach, Dunes of St Martin de Varreville

D-Day Landings UTAH Beach View over Utah Beach from German fortifications on the Dunes of St Martin de Varreville The Dunes of St Martin de Varreville The troops taking part in the successful Allied landings on UTAH beach on the morning of 6th June 1944 actually landed in the wrong place. The tides and current pushed the first wave of landing craft a mile further south to land opposite causeway No.2 (now the site [...]

By |2019-11-25T01:26:34+01:00May 11th, 2014|Categories: Uncategorized|2 Comments

Exercise Tiger. D-Day Landings Rehearsals

D-Day Landings Rehearsals - Exercise Tiger Tragedy on Slapton Sands Painting of the German E Boat attack against the Landing Ship Convoy 70 yrs ago, in the last week of April 1944, the Allies staged a "Dress Rehearsal" for the planned landings on UTAH beach in June 1944. The exercise took place on the night of 28th-29th April and the convoy carrying U.S, Troops for the invasion set sail into the English Channel [...]

By |2019-11-25T01:26:34+01:00May 6th, 2014|Categories: D Day, D Day 70, Uncategorized|0 Comments

Operation Argument – ‘Big Week’

  Allied planners for the Normandy Invasion scheduled for the late Spring or early Summer of 1944 knew that Air Superiority for the invasion would be vital. 70 yrs ago in February 1944 the Allies launched a series of air raids to target and destroy the German Luftwaffe. Thousands of bombers would set out to bomb German aircraft production forcing the Luftwaffe up to confront them or be destroyed without putting up a fight at [...]

By |2019-11-25T01:26:34+01:00March 20th, 2014|Categories: Uncategorized|0 Comments

Review from a serving US Army Captain

A Serving US Army Captain Reviews D-Day Tours of Normandy "... the only person I would hire to take my family and friends to the D-Day battlefields" It's always satisfying to get a good review but it's a little bit sweeter to get one from a professional, someone who's in the business, so to speak. I was privileged to guide a serving captain in the United States Army and his wife who wanted to  visit [...]

By |2019-11-25T01:26:35+01:00February 4th, 2014|Categories: Uncategorized|0 Comments

Sinking of the Scharnhorst and the Battle of the North Cape,

Battle of the North Cape, 26 December 1943 The German Battlecruiser Scharnhorst Battle of the North Cape and the sinking of the Scharnhorst 70 years ago this week, on 26 December 1943, the German battle cruiser Scharnhorst was brought to battle and sunk by the Royal Navy. Scharnhorst had been a thorn in the side of the allies since the outbreak of the war in 1939. In 1940 [...]

By |2020-01-13T02:18:18+01:00December 26th, 2013|Categories: Uncategorized|0 Comments

This Is A Custom Widget

This Sliding Bar can be switched on or off in theme options, and can take any widget you throw at it or even fill it with your custom HTML Code. Its perfect for grabbing the attention of your viewers. Choose between 1, 2, 3 or 4 columns, set the background color, widget divider color, activate transparency, a top border or fully disable it on desktop and mobile.

This Is A Custom Widget

This Sliding Bar can be switched on or off in theme options, and can take any widget you throw at it or even fill it with your custom HTML Code. Its perfect for grabbing the attention of your viewers. Choose between 1, 2, 3 or 4 columns, set the background color, widget divider color, activate transparency, a top border or fully disable it on desktop and mobile.