D-Day tour

First, I am no longer going to do a daily blog, big surprise. I am going to cover places we've visited. Since I have several groups, we sometimes visit the same places more than once. Also, at the end of the day after I have been driving people around, I don't have the energy to sit down and cover that day. Having said that here is some information on our D-Day tour.

US Cemetery above Omaha Beach

We ended up hiring a personal guide, Claire, and she was great. It seemed costly until we realized we would have paid more for the 4 of us to go on a big impersonal group bus tour. Of course I was the little bus tour driver. We had an almost 9 hour tour for 4 people for 313 Euros. We went to the two US beach heads, Utah and Omaha. We stayed in Arromanche, Gold Beach, which was invaded by the British so we didn't need to visit there. Skipped the other two landing sites. We went to a German cemetery and the US cemetery above Omaha Beach. Annie and I had been to the US cemetery before, but that was it. We also visited several significant battle sites and heard many accounts of the back ground of the war leading up to D-day and what happened on that day. Did you know that we captured Korean soldiers who had been forced to work for the Germans after being captured from the Russians, who captured them from the Japanese, who captured them when they invaded Korea before WW II! Also, there are now shell fish living in the waters off Utah beach which are native to our gulf coast because the landing craft were built around New Orleans and they hitched a ride on the boats all the way to France.