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Past Clients - including WWII Veterans

We thought it would be interesting to list some of the different Nationalities of clients who have taken tours with us since January 1st 2003. So far we have had customers from: The USA, Canada, England, Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland, Ireland, Switzerland, France, Germany, Poland, Belgium, the Netherlands, India, Mexico, Brazil, Croatia, the Czech Republic, South Korea, New Zealand, Australia, Taiwan, Thailand, Philippines, China, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Israel, China, Japan, Namibia and South Africa.

Veterans and families - So far we have taken many WWII veterans on tours including:
An Someset Light Infantry veteran for fought at Hill 112 south of Caen
An officer in the Canadian Black watch who led a Platoon at Verrieres Ridge
A driver with the British 11th Armd Division who fought at Hill 112 and in Operation Bluecoat
A Pacific war veteran who was involved in Operation Manhatten
A B26 Marauder pilot who flew over the beaches on D - Day
A lady code - breaker from Bletchley Park who helped decipher the German Enigma codes
A 2nd Battalion Ranger veteran who was in the unit assigned to attack Pointe du Hoc
A 506th PIR veteran who survived 4 major campaigns
A Pacific War SeaBee veteran
A B25 Meteorologist Aircrewman who flew over China in WWII
A 101st Airborne E/506th Lieutenant featured in the miniseries Band of Brothers
An RAF groundcrew airman who served near Gold Beach
A 90th division (459th) Infantryman who served at Mont Castre near Cherbourg
An Airforce Flying Instructor based near Paris Orly airport
A lady Doctor where served in Normandy with British Forces
A Canadian 4th Princess Louise Dragoon Guard veteran who fought on the Gothic Line in Italy
A Nisei/American who landed in Operation Dragoon in South of France in August 1944
An 8th Infantry Division Infantryman who landed on Utah Beach in August 1944
A USS Arkansas Radr operator who fought off Omaha and gold beaches on D - Day
A 35th Division Veteran who fought in the battles for St Lô
A 168th Engineer Veteran who fought in the Battle of the Bulge at St Vith
An 82nd Airborne 507th PIR PFC who met his buddy here 54 years after they last saw each other
A 101st Airborne trooper and member of a Pathfinder team, captured by the Germans in Normandy
A Canadian Airforce Typhoon pilot, visiting the airfields he flew from in 1944
Twin brothers - Henry and Thomas Bowles who landed on Omaha beach with the 18th RCT
A Sherman Tank commander who landed on Utah beach and fought in the battles for St Lô
A US 79th Division Veteran who served in the Cherbourg area in 1944
A 6 Commando mortarman who landed on Sword beach on D - Day, who was just 17 on June 6th 1944!
A Royal Artillery driver who landed on Juno with the Canadians
An Omaha beach Anti - aircraft gunner who later served in Patton’s 3rd Army
A USMC gunnery instructor who served in Korea and Vietnam
A B - 29 Superfortress Top - turret Gunner who served at Saipan and Guam
A USN Submarine Commander in the Pacific responsible for sinking 14 Japanese ships
A US Army Medic who landed in South of France in December 1944
A US LST 499 Survivor (sunk off Utah after hitting a mine on June 8th 1944)
A Vietnam 2nd Inf. Div. Veteran - his brother was killed with the same Div. in June 1944 here
A 79th Division infantryman who landed D - Day+8 and fought into Cherbourg and La Haye du Puits
A 526th Armd Inf. S/Sgt who landed on Utah on D - Day and fought through St Lô, Avranches, Operation Cobra and on into the Ardennes
An LST Crewman in the Pacific campaign
An 82nd Combat Engineer who’s unit built bridges near St Lô , Candol and Vire
A driver with the British 11th Armd Division who fought at Hill 112 and in Operation Bluecoat
A Silver Star awarded Lieutenant in the 44th Field Artllery who fought through Normandy
A 56th Signals Veteran who landed on Easy Red, Omaha Beach June 6th 1944
A Pacific Island - hopping US marine Veteran
An 888th Air Service Squadron, 9th Air Force Veteran who worked on forward airfields in Normandy
A 7th Armored Divsion Veteran who served in the Battle of the Bulge near St Vith.

In addition to the members of the GREATEST GENERATION listed above, we have taken more family members of WWII veterans than we can possibly list here. All sorts of people come to Normandy tracing the routes taken through the region by their loved ones in 1944, wishing to see the places they fought.

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This page last modified on Saturday, October 31st 2009