Normandy American Heroes

08/02/2025

Another great review of Pierre!

Amazing Experience - Pierre is the best!

Our guide, Pierre, was absolutely the best in that he provided great depth and breadth of information on battles, strategies, conflicts, and individuals on both sides of the war.

The 8 day tour was intense and was well-suited to both my son, who is passionate about World War 2 history, and a novice like myself.

It was so meaningful to stand on the ground where so many brave people sacrificed for us.

The transportation was comfortable, the hotels were top rate, and the restaurants were excellent. We received everything we could have hoped for at a fair price.

I’ve been on many private tours. This one, thanks to Pierre, will be remembered for life.

08/02/2025

Another great review of Pierre!

Amazing Experience - Pierre is the best!

Our guide, Pierre, was absolutely the best in that he provided great depth and breadth of information on battles, strategies, conflicts, and individuals on both sides of the war.

The 8 day tour was intense and was well-suited to both my son, who is passionate about World War 2 history, and a novice like myself.

It was so meaningful to stand on the ground where so many brave people sacrificed for us.

The transportation was comfortable, the hotels were top rate, and the restaurants were excellent. We received everything we could have hoped for at a fair price.

I've been on many private tours. This one, thanks to Pierre, will be remembered for life.

24/01/2025

▪️"Your home is a hole in the mud; they have been harrasing us since this morning, they don't want us to sleep".

The first assignment of the 71st Infantry Division was to relieve the boys of the 100th Infantry Division onto the Skyline Drive

20/01/2025

16/01/2025

▪️The Red Circle Division linked up with the Russians on VE-Day

71st Infantry Division known as the "Red Circle" entered combat in March 1945 and linked up with Russian troops on May 8th 1945.

16/01/2025

Omaha beach near Fox sector, I have been walking my@dogs there for years, it’s the first time I see this vestige uncovered by the really bad weather conditions we have had here in Normandy those last few weeks!

14/01/2025

Another great review from our privilege guest!

Normandy American Heroes is THE BEST way to do a D-Day tour!

This was the trip of a lifetime and we were so fortunate that our guide was the owner, Rudy Passera. We did the "Normandy to Eagle's Nest" tour the first 10 days of November, 2024. There were six of us travelling with him in a very comfortable van. We started in Paris and finished in Munich 10 days later.

Rudy is an acknowledged authority on WWII and if you love experiencing history, you will not be disappointed in spending your vacation with him. Yes, the trip is a bit expensive if it's just two of you, but we recruited friends to join us and that made the cost quite reasonable. But everything except shopping is included. The hotels (and very nice ones at that), meals (some of the best I've had), and the entrance fees to all the sites we visited are included. It is also a fairly challenging trip, in terms of walking. When we visited Mont Saint-Michel, one of our fitness trackers said we climbed 61 flights of stairs and did over 10,000 steps. A highlight for me was the "Easy Company" memorial, in the Ardennes Forest, Belgium. It was about dusk, foggy, and the light was perfect. Foxholes are still visible, and it was an emotional stop. Another emotional stop was the Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial Site.

Rudy can also arrange "next of kin" tours. If you had a relative who participated in D-Day, there's a good chance you could follow in their footsteps with Rudy's guidance. One of our friends travelling with us had a relative who came ashore at Omaha beach and made it as far as Oberwampach, Luxembourg. He lost his life trying to save the life of the son of the family in whose home his unit was sheltering. when German tanks came through the area. The event is memorialized with a plaque on the local church, and we participated in a small commemorative ceremony there with some local citizens.

Being able to do this type of tour on the small scale that Normandy American Heroes offers made it so much more rewarding. I kept telling Rudy that all the information he presented to us was like drinking from a fire hose, and I can't think of a question that he wasn't able to answer. It was a concentrated education about D-Day and the months that followed. I can't recommend this trip highly enough. I'd give it 10 stars if I could.

21/12/2024

Another great review of Pierre

Knowledgeable and Inspiring - Omaha & Utah Beaches

This tour of Omaha & Utah Beaches was a long awaited dream to experience and pay respect to those that saved the world. It all lived up to and exceeded our expectations, providing an opportunity, sometimes emotional, to express appreciation for those who served.

The tour options are so well organized and allow for any experience you could possible want. While recommendations we received were for the Normandy American Heroes Experience (Bayeux) specifically, we could not imagine we could have experienced anything better. From booking to tour end, Rudy and his team were so helpful and showed personal interest in our planning.

That being said, our guide, Pierre is an INVALUABLE asset to the group!!! His knowledge of WWII history and military strategies is amazing, informative and compassionate. We really appreciated the chronological descriptions of how America's military was not always the force we know today and how it came to be such.

Pierre is very personable and took an interest in learning of our group's own family histories with family members that served. His own focus on learning from veterans and continued connections with them is so very admirable of this young man.

Thank you Pierre!

20/12/2024

New Normandy American Heroes electric vehicle and colour!
Picture taken at our local hotel partner in Bayeux

19/12/2024

▪️“Places of memory, places of suffering and violence, confront us with the future as
much as with the past”.

Oradour-sur-Glane was a charming French village before June 10, 1944, day of a tragedy that would come to symbolize N**i barbarism in France after the war.

19/12/2024

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NUTS weekend Bastogne!

19/12/2024

NUTS weekend Bastogne!

15/12/2024

WWII US Veterans at NUTS weekend - Bastogne

15/12/2024

Waiting for the show to begin!
On 24 December 1944, the German 2nd SS ‘Das Reich’ Panzer Division entered the small village of Grandmenil in the municipality of Manhay. By 26 December they had withdrawn back to the village of Manhay.

13/12/2024

After three days of intensive fighting by the front line of the 109th Infantry Regiment of the 28th Infantry Division against an enemy far superior in number, it became imminent on 19 December 1944 that German troops were about to take the town of Diekirch within the following hours!

The Regimental Commander, Lieutenant Colonel Rudder, recently promoted after fighting with his Rangers at Hill 400, thereafter ordered the retreat of the remaining troops to a new defensive line on the heights overlooking Ettelbrück (beautiful monument and memorial dedicated to General Patton!).

As the executive officer of the 3rd Battalion of the 109th Infantry Regiment, Captain Harry Kemp was in charge of pulling troops through Diekirch in direction of the new defensive line.

Early afternoon of 19 December 1944 a delegation of town officials came to see Captain Kemp to draw attention on the 5000 or so civilians that would fall under German domination.

He therefore wrote an evacuation order to evacuate the civilians as of midnight 19 December, as such 95% of the local population left Diekirch via the railroad bridge spanning the Sauer river under cover of darkness as the remaining US troops retreated toward Ettelbruck.

Thanks to Captain Kemp the civilians escaped before the German took control of Diekirch on 20
December 1944.

For the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Diekirch, Colonel Kemp was awarded the Luxembourg “Commander of the Order of Merit”.

12/12/2024

Duchy of Luxembourg where on 10 September 1944 the 5th Armored Division entered Luxembourg (World Heritage UNESCO since December 1994)