Day 1
The tour begins in Atlanta with an informal reception. Participants will have an opportunity to get acquainted and meet the historians and tour staff. A brief overview of the legacy of Easy Company and their contribution to the war Europe will be presented.

Day 2 - Toccoa: Birthplace of the 506th
Ask any of the original members of Easy Company what made the unit so special and they will answer: "Toccoa." Following breakfast, we’ll travel to the tiny Georgia town that was the birthplace of the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment. As it did for so many of the men of Easy, our tour of Toccoa will begin at the local train station where recruits for the 506th arrived for training. From the station we will proceed to the Stephen’s County Historical Society to view their unique collection of artifacts and memorabilia from Camp Toccoa. Following lunch, we travel to the site of the camp and then proceed up Mount Currahee, the 1,000- foot mountain that the men of the 506th were forced to climb every day and the inspiration for their motto “Currahee,” an Indian word meaning “We Stand Alone.”

Day 3 - England, Prelude to Invasion
After our arrival in London, we visit Aldbourne, the tiny Wiltshire village that was the home of Easy Company in the months prior to the invasion. While in Aldbourne we will visit many of the buildings used by the men of Easy as they prepared for the greatest invasion in history. After touring the town, we’ll have an opportunity to enjoy a traditional lunch in the same pubs frequented by the men of the Easy Company 60 years ago. After finishing our tour of Aldbourne we head to Littlecote House, the historic English manor house that was the headquarters for the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment for the six months prior to the invasion.

Day 4 - Crossing the Channel
We go from Aldbourne it’s on to Portsmouth to visit the award winning D-Day Museum and Southwick House, headquarters for Supreme Commander Dwight D. Eisenhower during the invasion. Following our visit to Eisenhower’s headquarters, we board the cross-channel ferry.  Dinner is served during the trip.  We will then board our coach and travel to Bayeux.

Day 5 - Fortress Europe
At the start of the invasion several members of Easy Company landed in, and around, St. Mere Eglise, including Richard Winters, Carwood Lipton and Bill Guarnere. Our stay in France begins in St. Mere Eglise as well. Our first stop is the Airborne Museum. From St. Mere Eglise we follow the route Lieutenant Winters and a handful of men took on the first night of the invasion to Brecourt Manor. In 1944, the manor was the site of a German battery that threatened the invasion beaches at Utah. Today Brecourt Manor is a working farm usually closed to visitors. We will have the unique opportunity to visit the site of the battery and follow the exact route of the attack by Richard Winters and his men. From the manor we proceed to Utah Beach to visit the Utah Beach Museum. We finish the day at Culoville, the farm where the company spent its first evening after the invasion.

Day 6 - Moving Inland
Rising early the next morning, we follow the company’s route through Vierville, St. Come du Mont and into Carentan, the Norman town that was one of the Allies earliest objectives. We will see the site of Easy’s battle as they entered the town on June 12 and the square from which General Maxwell Taylor presented awards to his men for their performance during the invasion.

Day 7 - Remember September
The day begins with a visit to the Wings of Liberation Museum in Best to pay homage to the men who fought in Operation Market Garden, the largest airborne operation of the war. From there we will head to Son, location of the 506th's drop zone. We will then follow the company’s route into Eindhoven and visit Saint Catherine’s church where many of the original liberators gathered in September 1944.

Day 8 - The Island
Our travels begin along “Hell’s Highway,” the route followed by the British XXX Corps as it attempted to reach its embattled 1st Airborne Division, in Arnhem, where we will visit the famous bridge over the Rhine that was the objective of Operation Market Garden. Following lunch at De Westerbouwing, which in 1944 was a German observation position, we travel to the Island and visit the E Company positions during the month long stalemate at the end of Operation Market Garden. We’ll walk the site of the fight at the crossroads, where E Company attacked and destroyed a company of elite SS soldiers and visit the company’s jump off point for Operation Pegasus, the mission to rescue trapped British paratroopers on the evening of October 22-23, 1944.

Day 9 - The Hole in the Donut
Our next stop is Bastogne, Belgium, the site of the division’s epic eight-day stand against the Germans in December 1944. Along the way we stop at the American Battle Monuments Commission’s Netherlands American Cemetery and Memorial at Margraten to pay our respects at the graves of Easy Company men killed in Holland and Belgium. In Bastogne we visit the Battle of the Bulge Museum and General Anthony McAuliffe’s headquarters during the siege.

Day 10 - The Bois Jacques and Beyond
Saturday starts with a visit to the Bois Jacques, Halt Station and Easy Company’s foxholes overlooking the village of Foy. From Foy we will follow the company’s route through Recogne, stopping to visit the German cemetery, Cobru, Noville and Luzory. We conclude our tour of the Bulge in Rachamps. Our time in the Ardennes will finish, as it did for the men of Easy Company, with a special choral performance at the church at Rachamps.

Day 11 - The Last Patrol
From Bastogne we head south into Alsace, France. Along the way we stop at the Luxembourg Cemetery, where General George S. Patton is buried with members of his 3rd Army, and Fort Simserhof, a beautifully preserved Maginot Line fortification. Our day concludes with a visit to Hagenau, the site of some of Easy Company’s final battles and several daring patrols.

Day 12 - Why We Fight
On April 29, 1945, as they advanced into the Bavarian Alps, Easy Company liberated a satellite of the Dachau concentration camp at Landsberg. We will visit Dachau, site of some of the most nefarious acts of and against humankind during the war, as we travel south through Bavaria.

Day 13 - The Eagle’s Nest
Our tour of Easy’s battlefields ends at Adolf Hitler’s Alpine retreat at Berchtesgaden, where we will visit the Eagle’s Nest and the remains of the vast Nazi Party complex liberated by Easy Company in May 1945.

Day 14 - Points
As it did for the men of Easy Company, our travels will end at Zell am See and Kaprun, Austria, from where the company celebrated the anniversary of their jump into Normandy with a parachute drop into the waters of the Zeller See lake. In the evening we will have a final special banquet at the Eagle’s Nest high in the Bavarian Alps (weather permitting), where we can reflect on our trip and the Band of Brothers’ role in securing victory in Europe.

Day 15
Going Home
Depart our hotel in Berchtesgaden for Munich and our flight back home.

Recommended Reading:
Band of Brothers – Stephen E. Ambrose