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The ultimate trip through the American WWII effort: our Band of Brothers Tour is an epic journey from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest via the battlefields of the Battle of the Bulge in the footsteps of the famous Easy Company.
- Extension Pre-Tour Guests
- Day 1 Tour Group: Flight to London; Extension Group: Arrival in Atlanta
- Day 2 Arrival in London
- Day 3 England, Prelude to Invasion
- Day 4 Crossing The Channel
- Day 5 Fortress Europe
- Day 6 Normandy Coast
- Day 7 Remember September
- Day 8 Where They Stand
- Day 9 Bastogne
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Arrival in Atlanta. The tour begins in Atlanta with an informal Welcome Reception where participants will have an opportunity to get acquainted with each other and meet the historians and tour staff. A brief overview of the legacy of Easy Company will set the stage for the days ahead.
Tour-only Guests: Take overnight flight to London Heathrow. Assuming your departure is from the USA, you should board your overnight flight to London Heathrow, landing on Day 2. Pre-tour Extension Guests: Toccoa: Birthplace of the 506th. Ask any of the original members of Easy Company what made the unit so special and they will answer: “Toccoa.” Th...
All Guests: Arrive at London Heathrow. You will arrive in London this morning. Hotel accommodations will be provided at a Heathrow airport hotel. Standard check-in time is 3 p.m. The first tour activity will be a short 5 p.m. meet-up in the tour hotel’s conference room. Dinner is own your own, giving guests the option to take the tube to the city f...
Our morning starts with a visit to Littlecote House, the historic English manor that was headquarters for the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment for the six months prior to the invasion. We will tour Aldbourne, the tiny Wiltshire village that was the home of Easy Company, and visit many of the buildings used by the men of Easy as they prepared for t...
We begin our day in Portsmouth with a visit to the award-winning D-Day Museum and Southwick House, the elegant country house that became the location of the Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force. In the months leading up to D-Day, Southwick House became the headquarters of the main Allied commanders: Allied Supreme Commander, General Eise...
At the start of the invasion, several members of Easy Company landed in and around Ste-Mere- Eglise, including Richard Winters, Carwood Lipton, and Bill Guarnere. Here we begin our historical tracings of the 506th in France. This is where Dick Winters took command after the tragic death of Lt. Thomas Meehan. From Ste-Mere-Eglise we follow the route...
Rising early the next morning, we will drive to Omaha Beach where the Americans took the German fortifications after a stupendous fight. The six-mile-wide invasion beach is surrounded by cliffs that made the landing and attack extremely difficult. Landings here were necessary in order to link with British landings to the east at Gold Beach with the...
Today we will study Operation Market Garden, the largest airborne operation of the war. In broad daylight, the 101st Airborne Division parachuted into the Netherlands in a bold strike in order to seize bridges across rivers and adjacent canals from Belgium to Arnhem. From there we will head to Son, the location of the 506th’s drop zone and the brid...
Our travels continue along Hells Highway, the route followed by the British XXX Corps as it attempted to reach its embattled 1st Airborne Division, in Arnhem. Our travels will also take us to the famous bridge over the Waal River that was a key objective of Operation Market Garden, the Bridge at Nijmegen. Following lunch at the De Westerbouwing res...
Our next stop is Bastogne, Belgium, the site of the division's epic eight-day stand against the Germans in December 1944. Along the way, we stop at the American Battle Monuments Commissions Netherlands American Cemetery and Memorial at Margraten to pay our respects at the graves of Easy Company men killed in the Netherlands and Belgium. In Bastogne...
Follow the path of Easy Company, the paratroopers immortalized by Stephen Ambrose's book and HBO miniseries, from training to combat in Europe. Visit the sites of their most critical battles, meet the historians who researched them, and enjoy the camaraderie of fellow travelers.
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Dates and Prices. From $3,011 /person + reg. fee. 11-day all-inclusive version of this tour. From $5,441 /person + reg. fee. *The visit is strongly dependent on weather conditions, which can change even last minute.
Experience the original Band of Brothers tour based on the book by Stephen E. Ambrose, the author and co-executive producer of the HBO miniseries. Follow the footsteps of Easy Company, the 101st Airborne paratroopers, and learn from their stories and the research of Dr. Ambrose and his team.
Join us on our Band of Brothers Tour to follow in the footsteps of the division’s paratroopers from Normandy to the Eagle’s Nest and explore the sites where 101st soldiers, like Ronald Speirs (Read our earlier article - Badass paratrooper or war criminal?), went into battle to restore liberty to Nazi-occupied Europe.
Experience the battlefields of Europe and the Pacific with historians who are experts in WWII, Band of Brothers and D-Day. Choose from various tours that cover the planning, launch and outcome of the war, as well as the stories of America's heroes.
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The only Band of Brothers® Tour that always has a full-time tour historian. Our tour follows the path of Easy Company and is based on the first-hand recollections of the paratroopers and the extensive research of Stephen Ambrose and our Band of Brothers historians.
