• Friday, 10 March: Departure

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• Saturday, 11 March: Normandy Before the Landings: German Defenses, French Residents, and the First Attack

  • ​Ouistreham - Museum of the Atlantic Wall

  • Sword Beach

  • German battery at Longues-sur-Mer Widerstandsnests (WN) 48

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• Sunday, 12 March: The First American Attacks

  • ​Ste. Mére Église - 101st Airborne Division Museum

  • La Fière Bridge

  • Utah Beach

  • WN 103 at Varreville

  • Pointe du Hoc

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• Monday, 13 March: The British and Canadian Beaches – the Effort to Take Caen

  • ​Arromanches, remains of the British Mulberry Harbor

  • Juno Beach - Courseulles-sur-mer , Cross of Lorraine Monument, Bernieres-sur-Mer and Canada House

  • Widerstandsnest 18

  • Périers-sur-le-Dan - Marie Louise Osmont’s home

  • Abbaye d'Ardenne

  • Hill 112

  • British military cemetery at Ranville

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• Tuesday, 14 March: The Battle of Villers-Bocage, Operation Cobra, the German Cemetery at La Cambe, and the Bayeux Tapestry

  • Battery at Azeville

  • The Battle of Villers Bocage on Hill 213

  • St. Lo - Periers Road (the "start line" for Operation Cobra)

  • bocage field (typical of the scene of difficult hedgerow fighting)

  • German military cemetery at La Cambe

  • Bayeux - the Bayeux Tapestry

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• Wednesday, 15 March: Omaha Beach, the Normandy American Cemetery

  • ​Omaha Beach (from the Dog Green to the Easy Red Sector, likely with stop at Les Moulins Draw)

  • 1st Infantry Division Monument

  • Normandy American Cemetery - museum visit and eulogies at gravesides

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• Thursday, 16 March: Closing the Falaise Pocket, Chartres, and on to Paris

  • ​La Petite Chapelle in Mortain

  • Memorial de Coudehard at Montormel

  • Chartres Cathedral

  • Paris

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• Friday, 17 March: Visit to the George C. Marshall Center

  • ​Marshall Center – planned (subject to change)

  • Free time to explore Paris

  • farewell dinner at the Restaurant La Petite Chaise

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• Saturday, 18 March

  • Fly back to United States