Battles on the Siegfried Line: The Race to the Rhine

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4 nights' accommodation with continental breakfast
Specialist Battlefield Guide
Convenient local joining points
Travel by Silver Service coach

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Local departure by coach, then onward to Germany and our hotel in Aachen for a four-night stay.

We start the day on the Siegfried Line - or the Westwall as the Germans called it - close to the city of Aachen seeing examples of bunkers and dragon's teeth tank traps. We look at the battle for 'Bloody Aachen' and after lunch visit the Netherlands American Cemetery near Maastrict. We see the fascinating displays at the Eyewitness WW2 museum in Beek and visit British graves from the fighting on the Siegfried Line at Nederweert War Cemetery.

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Today we travel to the Hurtgenwald, the Hurtgen Forest where US forces got bogged down in costly fighting. We visit the Hurtgenwald Museum, visit the graves of the German dead from the battle, see the signs of battle among the trees and see where the fighting took place. We then visit Hill 400 and the bunkers where the US 2nd Rangers, heroes of Pointe du Hoc in Normandy, fought in December 1944.

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Early 1945 saw the introduction of many new weapons on the Allied side and at the village of Elsdorf we look at the use of Pershing tanks and where one of them came up against a Tiger tank. We then follow the route to the Rhine and look at the battle for Remagen Bridge, seeing the museum and the remains of the bridge. We end the day at nearby Koblenz with a visit to the superb German Army Defence Technology Museum which has many tanks and artillery pieces from the Second World War.

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To Calais and return home.

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Prices are per person, based on two sharing.

Extras: optional excursions; entrance fees to museums and places of interest; single room supplement £105; travel insurance from £34.95.

Accommodation

You will stay for four nights at the 2-star Ibis Aachen Hauptbahnhof located only 15 minutes walk from the historic centre of Aachen. It has a bar and breakfast room but no restaurant. However there are a number of restaurants in the surrounding area. All bedrooms have flat-screen T.V., telephone, air-conditioning and hairdryer.