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Start planning now! Special Tours In Remembrance: WWI Centenary 2014 - 2018.
Scheduled Battlefield Itineraries in Belgium, France and Holland:
*ANZAC Nation: 5 days; ANZAC Day Dawn Service 25 April, 2012 in Villers-Bretonneux. Pay respects to the fallen on the Western Front. See Hill 60, Fromelles and Pheasant Wood and the Franco-Australian Museum at the Victoria School, the Australia National Memorial, Tyne Cot Cemetery, Cobber Memorial, Wellington Tunnels, Pozieres...
*Normandy Beaches, from Defeat to Triumph in WWII: 4 days from Lille; multiple departure dates; Sites of an American, Canadian and Commonwealth interest including the D-Day Beaches, Dunkirk, Dieppe and the Atlantic Wall.
*Weekends on the Western Front: weekly departures; Choose a 2 or 3-day weekend. Combine the Ypres, Somme and Triumph & Disaster: Fromelles and Vimy tours.
*The Somme Day Tour: weekly, Saturdays; Exploration of events from July 1st to Nov 1916 encompassing the French battlefields
*Ypres Salient Day Tour: weekly, Sundays; trenches, battlefields and memorials
*TRIUMPH AND DISASTER Day Tour: weekly, Mondays; Fromelles and Vimy Ridge
Scheduled WWII Battlefield Itineraries in Central & Eastern Europe:
Please contact us for departure dates and availability: specialgrouptours@yahoo.com
*Ruins of the Third Reich Tour: 9 days beginning in Frankfurt, ending in Berlin; Wewelsburg, Nordhausen, Munster, Hamburg, Kiel, Peenemünde & Berlin, Germany
*Wolf's Lair Tour: 13 days from Berlin; Berlin, the Wolf's Lair (Rastenburg), Warsaw, Krakow & Auschwitz, Poland
*Secrets of the Third Reich Tour: 9 days beginning in Frankfurt, ending in Munich; Nürnberg, Dachau, Munich, Berchtesgaden, Obersalzberg & Eagle's Nest, Germany
*Operation Barbarossa Tour: 13 days from St Petersburg, ending in Moscow; Leningrad (St. Petersburg), Moscow & Stalingrad (Volgograd), Russia
*Battleground Italy Tour: 11 days from Rome; Palermo, Gela, Sicily, Salerno, Cassino, Gran Sasso, Anzio & Rome, Italy
DESIGN YOUR OWN CUSTOM TOUR WITH US! All SGT itineraries are available for private departures, from 2 guests and up on the date of your choice. The cost of a private tour is based on how many guests in the party. All itineraries below are suggestions and can be modified to specifically suit your travel requirements/requests. Learn more here: Private, Tailor-Made tours
Please contact us for a specific quote: specialgrouptours@yahoo.com
“Name the Date” Some of our SGT Suggested Itineraries for Private Groups, whenever you want them:
*London in Wartime Day Tour: Date of your choice! What was it like for those on the Home Front in the Capitol? Learn where the soldiers spent their leave and London during the Blitz. Visit the Imperial War Museum and Cabinet War Rooms.
*Forging of a Nation, Canadian Battlefields in Normandy and the Western Front: 7 days from Lille; This tour visits some of the most memorable and important sites where young Canadians fought and died for their new county's honour. Vimy Ridge, Beumont Hamel, Juno Beach are but a few sites...
*Americans in the Great War: Sgt York and the Doughboys: 4 days from Paris; multiple departure dates; Have you ever wondered where the American 'Doughboys' went, ‘over there’? Discover the sites of US contributions in the First World War in places such as Belleau Wood, Chateau Thierry, Vaux, Saint-Milhiel and the region of Meuse-Argonne. See the Sgt York Memorial. This tour also includes Verdun.
*Operation Market Garden, Belgian and Dutch Battlefields of WWII: 4 days from Lille; multiple departure dates; British, American and Canadian paratroopers fought for the liberation of the Low Countries, put an end to the Winter of Hunger but the bridge of Arnhem proved to be a “Bridge Too Far.”
*Battle of the Bulge: 4 days from Brussels; Discover the Ardennes and the events that transpired here including Bastogne, “Parker’s Corner,” the troop movements of General McAuliffe, Patton & the US 1st & 3rd Armies; pay your respects at the American Cemetery in Luxumbourg and the largest US cemetery in Belgium, Henri-Chapelle. Contact us for further details: specialgrouptours@yahoo.com
*American Forces to End WWII, 1944-45: Normandy Beaches, Battle of the Bulge and Operation Market Garden: 11 days, beginning in Paris, ending in Amsterdam; multiple departure dates; Travel the path of the brave men who helped change the course of modern history. Visit areas where the US Forces fought and where many died on the D-Day Landing Beaches, in the Ardennes Forest and along the German border in Northern Belgium and Holland. This journey of discovery also includes Americans in WWI, Doughboys and Sgt York, in the Chateux-Theirry and Meuise-Argonne regions of France.
*Commonwealth Battlefields, Both Sides of the Channel: 12 days from London; Portsmouth, Kent & the Battle of Britain, Normandy D-Day Beaches, the Atlantic Wall and the Western Front.
*Churchill and the Home Front: 3 days from London; Explore the legend and the man himself who lead Britain through the tumultuous events of the 20th Century - Leader, warrior, politician, Nobel Prize winner for literature and an inspiration for generations.
*Britain at War, WWII: 9 days from London; Life in 1940s England. Air raid shelters, POW camps, air fields and naval stations, espionage and more.
*Battles For France: 9 days from London; Normandy D-Day Beaches, Agincourt and the Somme.
*Battle of Britain: 5 days from London; Visiting museums, airfields and miscellaneous relevant sites of Battle of Britain and the Blitz.
*The Home Front, North Country 1939 - 1945: 4 days, from Manchester; You think of war, you think of battlefields...but what about the British ‘Home Front’? What kind of life did people live during those dark days between 1939 and 1945 when the World was engulfed with war...
*Bond...James Bond: 4 days from London; This is a fun romp through film sites, Ian Fleming’s life, and the world of espionage from its modern day inception through to the cold war era. Visit London, Dover, Bletchley Park, the war and air museums of Cosford together with the quaint and peaceful scenery of Kent and Buckinghamshire as a backdrop.
*Normandy Landing Beaches: 3 days from Paris; COMING SOON! Contact us for further details:specialgrouptours@yahoo.com
Interested in general sightseeing tours in France and Belgium? We have several tours in our Art and Wine Lovers tour series and many ideas for Belgium and Holland tours.
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