Stephen Ambrose Tours

Highlights

• The Lewis and Clark Train Interpretive Center and the C.M. Russell Museum: Center has indoor and outdoor exhibits that Stephen Ambrose called “the best anywhere;” Russell painted 4,000 works of art depicting the American West
• Lemhi Pass on the Continental Divide and the headwaters of the Missouri River: Dinner cruise on the “River of No Return”
• Hell’s Canyon National Recreation Area: Commemorates great moments in the exploration of the West

Highlights

• Toccoa: Begin your once-in-a-lifetime experience where the men of Easy Company began—at the training camp in Toccoa, Georgia
• Aldbourne, England: Visit the site where the men of Easy Company did their pre-invasion training
• Beaches of Normandy: Be inspired by the tales of bravery as told by Captain Drez, who recounts the first-hand accounts of the men who he has interviewed who on fought on these very beaches

Highlights

• Sorrento, Paestum - Start with a study of operations near Sorrento where the 36th Division established a beachhead; tour Paestum, the ancient Greek coastal ruins dating to 650 B.C.
• San Pietro - Visit the old mountainside village of San Pietro, scene of a fierce armored infantry battle and the caves where the civilians were forced to live
• Monte Cassino - Visit Monte Cassino, the tremendous siege the Allies conducted between January and May 1944, and the abbey completely rebuilt and restored after the destructive bombing

Highlights

• Gdansk - Begin in Gdansk at Westerplatte where the Polish garrison withstood German naval, artillery and infantry assaults for seven days in the war’s first action. Hitler's Wolf's Lair - Walk through the eerie remains of Hitler’s Wolf’s Lair hidden in the pine forests of NE Poland. Here he masterminded his eastern front operations and survived the 1944 assassination attempt. Warsaw - Tour Old Town Warsaw completely rebuilt after the city was destroyed and the Warsaw Rising museum, tribute to the courageous 1944 battle that lasted 63 days. Krakow - We highlight 1000-year-old Krakow and the Royal Castle and the Schindler Factory and Museum before entering through the “Arbeit Macht Frei“gates of Auschwitz, the international symbol of the Holocaust. Stalag Luft III - Visit Stalag Luft III where the “Great Escape” took place allows us to see the barracks and the remnants of tunnels Tom, Dick and Harry dug by the Allied airmen. Berlin - In Berlin we stand where the final surrender took place at Karlshorst, as well as see the Reichstag and the chilling Topography of Terror Museum. Not far from the Brandenburg Gate we experience the height of the Cold War at the Checkpoint Charlie Museum straddling what was East and West Berlin.

Highlights

• London: Tour the WWII places of interest in London, Churchill Cabinet War Rooms, the Imperial War Museum
• Portsmouth and Normandy: Depart for Normandy from Portsmouth where Eisenhower set up the advance command post for the Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force (SHAEF)
• Ste-Mere-Eglise: Visit Ste-Mere-Eglise where the effigy of John Steele still hangs from the church steeple

Highlights

• Hawaii: Battleship row in Hawaii where the remains of the sunken USS Arizona rests
• Saipan: The invasion beaches of Saipan, Harakiri Gulch and Marpi Point where hundreds of Japanese jumped to their deaths
• Tinian: The launching field for Enola Gay and the atomic bomb