Posts in Tag: Liberation Tours
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Longues-sur-Mer – Disabling the Batteries of the Atlantic Wall
The Atlantic Wall Liberation Tour 2015 resumed after our visit to Ranville War Cemetery and as we headed for the Normandy Coast tour historian Phil Craig gave us the lowdown on the Atlantic Wall, a 1,670 mile system of coastal defences that stretched from Denmark to Spain, including Longues-sur-Mer where we are headed now. It was built […]
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Ranville War Cemetery – Learn How to Find a Specific Grave
This morning we visited Pegasus Bridge and learned about the advance parachute, glider and commando operations that spearheaded the June 6, 1944 D-Day landings in Europe. While the operations were largely successful, they were not without significant casualties and many of these are interred at nearby Ranville War Cemetery. This is the first of many […]
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Pegasus Bridge – The Beginning of D-Day and the Allied Invasion
In the previous post I described why I had chosen Liberation Tours for a tour of Canadian WWI and WWII sites in France, Belgium and Holland. We broke camp early on day two of the Liberation Tour 2015 and departed Paris on an overcast morning heading for Normandy and the coast where we would spend three […]
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Liberation Tour 2015 Kicks Off with Our First Briefing and a Seine Boat Ride
In 1963 I became a very fortunate young lad as I was asked by my grandfather William Campbell Dunlop to join him on a tour of the European battlefields that he had fought in as a veteran of WWI. We visited not only WWI sites, but also the Normandy D-Day beaches and Canadian liberation sites […]
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Paris – Off to the City of Light to Join Liberation Tours
It’s been one hell of a winter here in Nova Scotia with record breaking (and back breaking) snowfall. It’s April 18th and there is still three feet of snow on large swathes of our lawn. Robins arriving back home have had a rude awakening as they discover that ice worms are not as plentiful or […]