Visit with an Actor-Guide. Omaha Beach, Code Name: Overlord
ID: GYG752843-1224048
Category:
Country: France
Duration:
01:30 hours
Description
Experience D Day through the eyes of a Native American combat-medic from The Big Red One. Feel the horror and nobility of the army’s sacrifice amongst the ruins still strewn across Omaha Beach.
Relive the Normandy Landing, the hellscape of bloodshed that so many did not survive. Charles Shay, as played by your actor-guide- is there to tend to the wounded in a desperate bid to save their lives against all hope, these men who have become - in the massive training that led to this moment– bound in friendship, in brotherhood. A proud member of the Amerindian Penobscot Nation, Charles Shay will recount the largest amphibian landing in history – 130 000 combatants – and how it happened in record time. You will learn of Operation Neptune, Mulberry Pass, Mission Round up,and Mission Tiger among others, including the counter espionage mission, Fortitude. At his side you will learn the grand plan, and dive deeply into its complexity.Only through this ordeal by fire of June 6, 1944 can there be hope of saving France and the entirety of Europe from the Nazi menace. Charles Shay,was one among the many ready to offer his life to this end. With him as witness, and through his memories, you will understand D Day as never before. You will know the violence, the sacrifice, the casualties and the ultimate triumph that lay at the day’s close, the start of a long, long road ahead of these soldiers of the Normandy beaches. Nothing about the victory was guaranteed. It might have failed tragically leaving the world victim to Fascist oppression. It was the successes of Omaha Beach that ultimately turned the tide in favor of freedom. Experience this momentous day as if you had been there with our Operation Overlord tour.
Highlights
- Meet your guide, as Charles Shay, combat-medic and Penobscot tribe member
- Listen rapt as he tells of the steps and missteps of Operation Overlord
- Grasp the complexity of the operation, whose success hung in the balance
- Admire the heroes who fell and those who went on to liberate France & Europe
- Walk in Van Gogh's footsteps and see the inspirations of the great painter
Guiding languages
IMPORTANT INFORMATION
Duration: 1h 30m
Mobile tickets accepted
Instant confirmation
Meet your guide at La Passerelle de Mulberry au 5 Rue de la Mer, 14710 Vierville-sur-Mer
When should I book?
To guarantee availability book as soon as possible. Early booking is worth consideration especially if you planning the trip during high season like public holidays or weekends.
Cancellations
This excursion you can cancel with no cost up to 24 hours before the start of the trip. If you cancel it after 24 hours or not show up on the excursion you will still be charged the full price of the activity. Being late on pick-up or departure will be considered as not showing up.