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Battlefield Tours and Key Dates of WW2

Whether you’re looking for an introductory tour, or you’re in need of some inspiration before planning your next battlefields tour, here we’ve listed tours which cover the key dates and events of the Second World War.

JUN 1815 - NOV 1944
The Battlefields of Belgium –
Campaigns from WWI, WWII & Waterloo

Key Dates:
  • 18 June 1815 Battle of Waterloo
  • 23 August 1914 Battle of Mons
  • 31 October 1914 First Battle of Ypres
  • 22 April 1915 Second Battle of Ypres
  • 7 June 1917 Battle of Messines
  • 31 July 1917 Third Battle of Ypres
  • 9 April 1918 Battle of the Lys
  • 26 September 1918 Fourth Battle of Ypres
  • 6 September 1944 Start of the Liberation of Flanders
  • 2 October 1944 Operation Switchback
  • 1 November 1944 Landings at Walcheren Island

JAN 1933 - MAY 1945
Rise and Fall of the Third Reich

Key Dates:
  • 30 January 1933 Adolf Hitler becomes Chancellor
  • 1 September 1939 German invasion of Poland, start of WW2
  • 16 April 1945 Battle of Berlin
  • 30 April 1945 Hitler commits suicide
  • 4 May 1945 Surrender at Luneberg Heath to British Forces
  • 8 May 1945 Surrender at Karlshorst to Soviet Forces

MAY 1940 - JUN 1940
The Maginot Line

Key Dates:
  • 10 May 1940 Battle of France begins
  • 13 May 1940 Battle of Villy la Ferte
  • 22 June 1940 Armistice at Compiegne

MAY 1940 - JUN 1944
France Under the Jackboot -
SOE, SAS & the French Resistance

Key Dates:
  • 10 May 1940 Battle of France begins
  • 22 June 1940 Armistice at Compiegne
  • 18 February 1944 Operation Jericho: Amiens Prison
  • 10 June 1944 Oradour sur Glane Massacre

MAY 1940 - SEP 1944
Dunkirk and Fortress Europe

Key Dates:
  • 10 May 1940 Battle of France begins
  • 27 May 1940 Operation Dynamo: Dunkirk
  • 22 June 1940 Armistice at Compiegne
  • 6 September 1944 Start of the Liberation of Flanders

AUG 1942
Operation Jubilee –
75th Anniversary Commemorative Tour

Key Dates:
  • 19 August 1942 Dieppe: Operation Jubilee

AUG 1942 - JUN 1944
Commando Operations of WWII
featuring Dieppe, St. Nazaire & Normandy

Key Dates:
  • 19 August 1942 Operation Jubilee: Dieppe
  • 28 March 1942 Operation Chariot: Raid on St Nazaire
  • 6 June 1944 Operation Overlord

MAY 1943 - FEB 1945
Air War Europe: Colditz,
Dambusters & the Great Escape

Key Dates:
  • 17 May 1943 Operation Chastise: Dambusters Raid
  • 24 March 1944 The Great Escape
  • 13 February 1945 Dresden Raid

SEP 1943 - JUN 1944
The Italian Campaign featuring
Salerno, Anzio & Monte Cassino

Key Dates:
  • 9 September 1943 Operation Avalanche: Salerno
  • 28 November 1943 Battle of the Sangro
  • 20 December 1943 Battle of Ortona
  • 17 January 1944 First Battle of Cassino
  • 22 January 1944 Anzio
  • 15 February 1944 Second Battle of Cassino
  • 15 March 1944 Third Battle of Cassino
  • 11 May 1944 Fourth Battle of Cassino
  • 5 June 1944 Liberation of Rome

JUN 1944 - AUG 1944
D-Day Landings in Normandy

Key Dates:
  • 6 June 1944 Operation Overlord
  • 28 June 1944 Operation Epsom
  • 7 July 1944 Battle of Caen
  • 18 July 1944 Operation Goodwood
  • 30 July 1944 Operation Bluecoat
  • 8 August 1944 Operation Totalise
  • 12 August 1944 Battle of Falaise Pocket
  • 25 August 1944 End of the Battle of Normandy

JUN 1944 - AUG 1944
Panzers in Normandy

Key Dates:
  • 6 June 1944 Operation Overlord
  • 28 June 1944 Operation Epsom
  • 7 July 1944 Battle of Caen
  • 18 July 1944 Operation Goodwood
  • 30 July 1944 Operation Bluecoat
  • 8 August 1944 Operation Totalise
  • 12 August 1944 Battle of Falaise Pocket
  • 25 August 1944 End of the Battle of Normandy

JUN 1944 - AUG 1944
D-Day – Portsmouth & Normandy

Key Dates:
  • 6 June 1944 Operation Overlord
  • 28 June 1944 Operation Epsom
  • 7 July 1944 Battle of Caen
  • 18 July 1944 Operation Goodwood
  • 30 July 1944 Operation Bluecoat
  • 8 August 1944 Operation Totalise
  • 12 August 1944 Battle of Falaise Pocket
  • 25 August 1944 End of the Battle of Normandy

SEP 1944 - MAR 1944
Arnhem & the Rhine Crossings

Key Dates:
  • 17 September 1944 start of Operation Market Garden
  • 25 September 1944 Withdrawal of troops from Arnhem
  • 8 February 1944 Operation Veritable: Reichswald Forest
  • 23 March 1944 Operation Plunder: Rhine Crossing

SEP 1944 - MAR 1944
Race to Remagen: Aachen to the Rhineland

Key Dates:
  • 19 September 1944 Battle of Hurtgen Forest
  • 2 October 1944 Battle of Aachen
  • 7 March 1944 Battle of Remagen Bridge
  • 23 March 1944 Operation Plunder: Rhine Crossing

DEC 1944 - JAN 1945
Battle of the Bulge

Key Dates:
  • 16 December 1944 Battle of the Bulge begins
  • 20 December 1944 Bastogne is surrounded
  • 25 January 1945 Battle of the Bulge ends

WW2 1939 - 1945
Peenemunde, the Baltic Coast
& Wartime Berlin

WW2 1939 - 1945
Understanding the Holocaust,
Auschwitz, Kraków & Schindler’s Factory by Air

WW2 1939 - 1945
The Holocaust Remembered -
The Moving Story of Anne Frank & Oskar Schindler

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