| - day 0 - (
miles to travel) |
A
minimum of 6 participants is
required, paying a
rate of an average $ 250 per day, per person, exclusive of air
fare.  | Participants
leave USA for Londen
in the United Kingdom.
Colored text, whereabouts of the 506th company, is not
accurate yet. |
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Best
Western Porthmouth
 | Welcome
at London airport by Cor Suijk
2 pm Check-in at Portmouth hotel
4
pm guided tour of Portsmouth and group dinner
Evening at leisure. Aldbourne
in Wiltshire, UK home to Easy Company. Littlecote House, the
headquarters of 506 PIR. |
Imperial
War Museum |
 | in the
moring to London for hop on and off double-decker city tour with
stops at War Room and other WorldWar II highlights followed by dinner (
was lunch). Cross the channel this day (late in the evening)
and overnight in Calais
Following in the footsteps
of the Band of Brothers will not only expose travelers to World War II
history and sites, but also a diverse mix of charming villages and
enticing cities. You don't have to be a war history buff to enjoy it.
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Suitehotel Calais Coquelles Tunnel
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The
artificial harbor,
prefabricated in
Great Britain
and used to bring the
equipment ashore.
In total 500.000 Tons. | 11 am to Caen
dinner and stay in
hotel Caen, France (2 nights)
Mercure hotel
Caen
 Visit to Utah Beach Tuesday.
Brecourt Manor, where Easy
Company saw its first action, and Ste Marie du Mont.
St Mere Eglise and the US Airborne museum.
Carentan, taken and held by 506 PIR.
|  There still is a
para
trooper to watch. |
 Mercure
hotel Caen |
9 am
St. Mere Eglise
Point du Hoc
Omaha and Utah Beach
and American cemetery
lunch en route
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Caen
Memorial museum
A museum for peace, tells the story of the 20th
Century. Its principal mission is stimulating awareness of the
fragility of peace. |
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9 am am Pegasus bridge, D-day &
Caen Memorial (Peace) museum,
5pm to Belgium, dinner en route
2 nights hotel Aragon, Bruges Band
of Brothers dropped behind enemy lines in Normandy on D-Day -
their first combat experience .
and they moved into Brecourt Manor, just north of Saint
Marie-du-Mont, to take out a German artillary installation.
In true paratrooper’s
tradition, they went on to find themselves surrounded again in Veghel
and Bastogne.
|  Hotel
Aragon Brugge |
General
Patton - Statue |
9 am to Bruges, Belgium, leisure and group dinner They regrouped in the town of
Angonoville-au-Plain and, for three weeks, attempted to capture the
town of Carentan (now a village of about 7,000 people just 4 kilometers
from the beachfront and a short drive to Utah Beach)
| Hotel Aragon Brugge |
Hotel van der Valk
 | 1 pm guided Bruges city tour.
3 pm to Catherina church Eindhoven, the Netherlands,
dinner en route, further to Arnhem bridge.
Hotel in
Arnhem
The US
airborne forces were the only Americans involved in the plan to end the
war in 1944
Eindhoven and the drop zones for Market Garden.
506th’s objective was the bridge over the Wilhelmina canal at
Son.
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Continue to The Wings of Liberation museum
and explore Hell’s
Highway around Uden and Veghel. |
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9 am to museum Overloon and WW
highlights Bastogne, Belgium,
lunch en route,
hotel in Bastogne
Area
known as ‘The Island’ where Easy Co were in the
line in October and during which time they held out against and
repulsed two major German counterattacks, in particular destroying two
SS companies in close combat.
Battle of the Bulge.
Bastogne Historical centre and Mardasson monument on the hill
overlooking the town.
The woods at Foy, Noville
and Rachamps - the counter offensive by 101st in January 1945 where an
exhausted Easy were able to still dominate their enemy. |
Hotel
Melba - Bastogne |
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11 am to Luxembourg for
Patton's grave and hotel in Echternach:
group dinnerAlsace and
Hagenau where Easy Company found themselves back in the line in
February 1945. Their last major action; a night raid across
the river Moder to bring back prisoners.
France in the Alsacian town
of Haguenau before crossing the border nearby, entering Germany and
eventually taking Hitler's compound, Eagle's Nest. Haguenau is just
north of Strasbourg, seat of the European Council and European
Parliament. |
Hotel
Ede au Lac - Echternach
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Early departure for Remagen
bridge Germany,
lunch in Wiesbaden and hotel in Würzburg |
Hotel Würzburg
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Achat Hotel Zum Hirschen Salzburg
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we start with a visit to Munich
thereafter course to camp Dachau
dinner and hotel in Salzburg
(2 nights)Zell am See and
Kaprun where the Band of Brothers ended the war.
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Achat
Hotel Zum Hirschen Salzburg |
9 am to camp Mauthausen. (see
other pages for more info)
Dinner at Mondsee, leisure time
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afternoon to Eaglesnest, Berchtesgaden
pass by Kaprun
dinner and airport hotel
in MunichOn the 22nd April
the 506th were ordered to Bavaria and on 5th of May Easy Company lead
the Regiment in to Hitler’s ‘Eagles Nest’
at Berchtesgaden. A marble-lined tunnel leads into the heart of the
mountain to ride in the original brass-lined elevator to the summit.
It's now a restaurant.
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Regent
Hotel Munchen |
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Participants will be guided to the
departure check in at Munich airport
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| Day
of departure back to America. |
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For
each day the
total distance in miles is given as last figure in the date line.
In total: 2050 miles or 3280 kilometers. | |
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The
videos shown on the bus
partly pertain to the Holocaust sites we will visit shortly before we
are visiting them. For the other part they contain information
regarding the cities we are approaching. Also a video about Miep Gies,
the helper of Anne Frank, will be presented.
Pictures on our site are merely a way to give an impression of what we
will actually see on the trip. Hotels in particular always give
pictures of their most beautiful rooms. |
