Battle Of The Bulge Tours

On June 6, 1944, the picturesque coast of Normandy became the scene of the largest and most complex military operation in world history. On that day alone over 130,000 Allied soldiers, supported by over 6,000 ships and 12,000 aircraft, attacked beaches whose names have become legendary; while 24,000 more troops entered the battle by glider and parachute.Over the next eleven weeks, fierce combat raged across a once-bucolic Normandy landscape. By the end of the battle in August, the Allies had won a key success that would put them on the road to eventual victory over Nazi Germany.Today, Normandy is again a peaceful and beautiful region, where the echoes of the past reach out to us at every turn.Come with us and visit the places where brave men fought for freedom, and where the history of the world was changed forever.for Normandy tour details to learn whats included, travel information, and to get a glimpse of some of the many places we will visit during our tour. Adolf Hitler’s last major offensive on the Western Front began on December 16, 1944, as 200,000 German soldiers attacked thinly held American positions in the forests of the Ardennes in Belgium and Luxembourg.

Learn all about the Battle of the Bulge - the massive surprise German offensive near the end of World War II - on this moving and enlightening private tour from Brussels. Travel along the former front line of the Battle of the Bulge, seeing memorials, monuments and preserved tanks. Visit the Henri Chapelle American Cemetery and the German military cemetery at Recogne. Witness the site of the. About the tour. The Battle of the Bulge is the name given to the military operations that took place in the Ardennes region during the winter of 1944/5. It began on 16th December 1944 with a surprise German attack later known as the “Von Rundstedt Offensive”.

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The Germans struck hard, initially gaining successes against their surprised and often inexperienced opponents. Soon however, small units of G.I.s rallied to slow the enemy onslaught as reinforcements poured into the Ardennes. For more than five weeks, the two sides fought one the bitterest contests of the Second World War, ultimately involving nearly one million combatants and inflicting almost 200,000 casualties.The Battle of the Bulge was the largest engagement ever fought by the United States Army, and it resulted in the defeat of Germany’s last reserves. The war in Europe would end less than four months later.Our most recent Battle of the Bulge tour stretched from October 17th to October 24th, 2015. Our tour began with a visit to the excellent Royal Armed Forces Museum in Brussels, our week-long itinerary included numerous sites in Belgium, Germany, and Luxembourg, where the valor and grit of the American soldier was pitted against the Wehrmacht’s desperate attempt to reverse the course of World War Two. Today, the Ardennes remains a region of villages, farms, and forests, where the past is never far away.Our most recent tour concluded on October 24th 2015.

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