Visit D-Day

03/06/2024

It’s all go for the 80th Anniversary of DDay. The sun is shining on us and we’re all set for an amazing few days touring all the beaches and sectors. Give me a wave if you see me (you can’t miss me in my red jacket!).

26/12/2023

We hope you’re having a wonderful Christmas time🎄

Don’t forget to book your D-Day tour for the coming year. Dates are filling up already🎄

25/12/2023

Wishing you all a very Merry Christmas from all at Visit D-Day HQ 🎄⚓️🎄⚓️🎄

Remembering Joseph. J. Solotes (from New York) who sadly lost his life on the 25th December 1944.

Picture: Colleville Cemetery, Christmas Eve, 2023.

25/06/2023

Looking for somewhere to stay in July and August? We still have some dates available in our B&B.

We’re located right in the heart of the American DDay Landing area. Between Carentan and Saint Mere Eglise.

Come and stay at Navy & Co when you tour with Visit D-Day

02/01/2023

Why not tour and stay with us?

We’re right in the centre of the US Airborne Landing site and not far from Utah Beach, Saint Mère Église and Carentan.

🎉Happiest of New Years🎉

To all our friends, followers, supporters, allies, clients past, present and future from around the world we wish you peace and success for 2023 🇫🇷🇺🇸🇬🇧

We are ready to welcome you in 2023 with our friendship and hospitality 🥐

01/01/2023

Wishing all our Visit D-Day friends, followers, supporters, explorers, clients past and new, a Happy New Year🎉
Come and Visit D-Day soon 🇫🇷

01/09/2022

It may be my birthday, but the tour must go on! 🎂

10/07/2022

The cast of "Saving Private Ryan" (1998) endured a grueling, week-long course at boot camp instructed by technical advisor Dale Dye. Tom Hanks, who had previously been trained by Dye for the Vietnam war scenes in "Forrest Gump" (1994), was the only one of them who knew it would be a hard and uncompromising experience: "The other guys, I think, were expecting something like camping in the woods, and maybe learning things while sitting around the campfire." All the principal actors, except for Matt Damon, underwent several days of grueling army training. Damon was spared so that the other actors would resent him and would convey that feeling in their performances. All but one of the principal actors voted to quit, as they found it too arduous. The one dissenting voice was Hanks, who thoroughly enjoyed the experience. Naturally, his vote counted the most, so the rest of the actors were obligated to complete their training.

Hanks revealed that the film captured only a fraction of Omaha Beach's importance "We were interlopers, of course," Hanks said. "We had the audacity and the hubris to think that somehow we could capture some of what that place means in the history of the world. It turned out we sort of did, but at the end of the day, all you can do is kind of like bow your head in understanding of, you know, the great providence that had happened there." "I don't think anybody who has some semblance of historical knowledge, or even without it, can go to a place like that--and they are scattered all over France, they're scattered all over Europe--and not take pause there, and think, 'What would I have done if I had been a 19-year-old kid there on that day?'" Hanks recalled feeling like he'd visited a "holy place" when he went to the real Omaha Beach.

In 2006, Hanks was inducted into the US Army's Ranger Hall of Fame as an honorary member, largely thanks to his portrayal of Captain John Miller. (IMDb)

Happy Birthday, Tom Hanks!

30/06/2022

For the 80th 😉

Le logo du 80e anniversaire du Débarquement et de la Bataille de Normandie a été présenté ce mercredi 29 juin, par Hervé Morin, Président de la Région Normandie et Président de Normandie Tourisme, lors d’une conférence de presse qui s’est déroulée à l’Abbaye aux Dames à Caen.

« J’ai le plaisir de dévoiler aujourd’hui le logo officiel de cet anniversaire. Il sera à la disposition de tous ceux qui souhaitent en être ambassadeur. Je vous invite à vous en saisir, à l’utiliser et parer la Normandie de ces belles couleurs pour célébrer ensemble ce 80eanniversaire. Ce rendez-vous sera sans aucun doute le dernier en présence de témoins. Nous avons souhaité lancer dès à présent la dynamique de ce grand anniversaire afin de permettre à tous ceux qui le souhaitent d’y prendre part. Nous avons l’ambition d’être LA destination internationale par excellence sur le thème de la Seconde Guerre mondiale » a déclaré Hervé Morin, Président de la Région Normandie.

Cet anniversaire décennal qui sera célébré en 2024, marquera une étape mémorielle importante avec le passage du tourisme de mémoire à un tourisme d’histoire. La Région Normandie, le CRT, et l’ensemble des acteurs du territoire concernés préparent dès maintenant cet évènement majeur.