Private Air Tours of the Normandy D-Day Landing Sites

Introduction
Message for 2013
D-Day Tours

Welcome to D-Day Air Tours

Michael Phillips D-Day Airtours will take you on an insightful one-day tour of the landing beaches and other D-Day sites. Pick up from Central London (or other areas by arrangement) in the morning, flying to Carpiquet airport, Caen from Oxford, and return by mid-evening of the same day.

Your tour is delivered by a professional English guide experienced and knowledgeable in the D-Day landings.

Whether you are from America, Canada or Britain you will be provided with detailed information about your country's role in the landings.

Please feel free to contact us for more detailed information.
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Stop Press... an article by Mr. George F. Will

I recently had the pleasure and privilege to conduct a tour for the renowned journalist, Mr George F. Will.

» Click here to read his column in the Washington Post
which he wrote after the tour.

"Michael’s great asset as a D-Day guide is his ability to communicate with you in his first language, English. Whilst others can give you the bald facts, Michael is able to add entertainment, including some humor, and a "wow" factor to his presentation which you are unlikely to find elsewhere. He is clear and concise; you will not be left without a true appreciation of what happened on June 6th 1944."

Mr George F. Will did not make his choice lightly, and nor should you.

Our tour of the D-Day Normandy battlefields and cemeteries with you and Sally as our delightful, enjoyable, knowledgeable, and insightful guides and companions was a moving and enriching experience that I will never forget. Thank you for a most thorough, informative, enlightening and memorable time.

Gratefully,
Herb Kelleher
Former Chairman and CEO of Southwest Airlines
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If you are looking for a longer, much more in-depth trip by car and on foot, then please see our alternate site offering this at www.d-daytours.com.

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A message for 2013

First I would like to make mention of the number of clients who have become good friends since I started this business in 1997. Each time I greet a new client there is a meeting of minds, one side who has a desire to see and learn and another who likes to give and instruct. It is a perfect combination leading to many firm friendships; a bonding across the Atlantic as in 1944.

Once again, 2012 was a record year for takers of private tours of the historic D-Day Landing Beaches of Normandy, France. It is remarkable that visitor numbers to the D-Day Landing Beaches in Normandy continue to increase notwithstanding the state of Western economies at present. 2012 was my busiest season since I started touring over 16 years ago and 2013 shows no sign of slowing down.

The question must be asked why this should be so? Possibly because everyone has a natural curiosity to visit places which have relevance in their lives, or Nationalistic instinct. The D-Day Landing Beaches of Normandy admirably fills this role. June 6th 1944 witnessed a turning point in history when the largest ever invasion fleet assembled comprising Allied combatants sailed from Britain to engage the firmly entrenched German positions in Normandy, France. It was vital to overcome Hitler’s fascist forces and return Democracy into Europe, a theme often quoted in the world today as the battle for Freedom continues its two steps forward, one step back progress. As all schoolchildren know, this chapter was successfully concluded following Hitler’s suicide in Berlin at the end of April, 1945. Ten months of bloody and brave fighting had achieved the victory and all this started on the beaches and fields of Normandy.

Something has to be said for the loyalty and devotion of the American people to travel years later the thousands of miles from America to Europe to pay homage and tribute at these sites, and to the brave soldiers, sailors and airmen who fought there.

As a private guide I escort single travelers, family groups and groups of friends on one to five day tours, with an option to visit Le Mont St Michel as a break from the war-war theme. It is always a pleasure and a privilege for me to undertake tours, and whereas the sites remain the same, the people I take there are always different. The certainty of the discovery of historic achievement, dedication and bravery is evident at every turn in Normandy.

Today in 2013 we have the credit crunch and economic uncertainty with which to contend. In 1944 it was guns and bullets and lives.

Michael Phillips
Managing Director
Perception Travel Co. Ltd.
England