This is the schedule for our upcoming tour--I want to be truly prepared!! [Note: 29 July 2018-There were a few changes in the schedule and I have adjusted it here]
AEF WWI CENTENNIAL TOUR 2018
With Michael Hanlon
Tuesday, 7 August 2018
Golden Tulip Hotel/CDG
Paris, France (Roissy)
Welcome Dinner
Wednesday, 8 August 2015
New Regina Hotel
Flanders
Fields, Belgium
The AEF in the Somme/Cantigny/In Flanders Fields,
Part I
Cantigny
Hamel
Chipilly Ridge
Mont Kemmel
Flanders Field Museum
Menin Gate
Last Post Ceremony
Last Post Ceremony
Thursday, 9 August 2018
Best
Western Plus, Hotel des Francs
Soissons,
France
In Flanders Fields, Part II/Taking the Hindenburg
Line
II Corps Final Advance
U.S. Flanders Fields and
Somme Cemeteries
Blerancourt French-American
Museum
Friday, 10 August 2018
Best Western Plus, Hotel des Francs
Soissons,
France
Four Battles at Chateau-Thierry/Chateau de Blerancourt/Compiegne
Armistice Glade
Marne River
Belleau Wood
Vaux
Soissons
U.S. Aisne-Marne Cemetery
Hill 204 Memorial / Visitors
Center
Churches
Belleau
Chateau-Thierry
Saturday, 11 August 2018
Best Western Plus, Hotel des Francs
Soissons,
France
The Second Battle of the Marne
Rainbow
Division at Croix Rouge Farm and the Ourcq River
Pennsylvania
Bridge at Fismes
U.S.
Oise-Aisne Cemetery
Landowski’s
Second Battle of the Marne Memorial
Sunday, 12 August 2018
Les Jardins du Mess
Verdun, France
Chemin des Dames: The Yankee
Division/Operation Blucher/ Champagne Operations: 15 July 1918/ Blanc
Mont/Sechault
Champagne
Argonne
Forest Flank
Navarin
Farm
Blanc
Mont
Sechault
The
Harlem Hellfighters
The
Lost Battalion
Sergeant
York
Monday, 13 August 2018
Les Jardins du Mess
Verdun, France
St. Mihiel Salient
Eparges Spur
Bois Brule
Seicheprey
Regnieville
Thiaucourt
and Closing the Salient
Yankee
Division’s Big Moment
George
Patton Leads America’s First Tank Attack
Montsec
Memorial
U.S. St.
Mihiel Cemetery
PS: Just in case you have yet to travel to St. Mihiel Cemetery,
the namesake of our VFW Post is William Hendershott. He is buried there
at Block D, Row 12, Grave 12. A photo of the way it looks today would be fantastic
Tuesday, 14 August 2018
Les Jardins du Mess
Verdun, France
The Meuse Argonne Offensive, Phases I and II
Opening
Attacks
Forges
Montfaucon
Vauquois
Varennes
Cheppy
Second Phase
at Fleville
Cierges
Cunel
Romagne
Capt. Truman’s
War
Montfaucon
Memorial
U.S. Romagne
Cemetery
Wednesday, 15 August 2018
Les Jardins du Mess
Verdun, France
The Meuse Argonne Offensive, Phase III
Attack of 1
November and Breakthrough to Sedan
Crossings of
the Meuse Rive
Fighting on
the Meuse Heights
Balloon
Buster Frank Luke’s Last Fight
Henry
Gunther—Last to Fall Memorial
Verdun-Memorial
and Ossuary
Thursday, 16 August 2018
Golden Tulip
Hotel
Paris,
France (Roissy)
The AEF and the Voie Sacree/America’s Unknown
Soldier/Musee de la Grande Guerre at Meaux
Voie Sacree Monument
First Army
Headquarters, Souilly
Rembercourt
Airfield for the 50th and 94th Aero Squadrons
Behonne Airfield
of the Lafayette Escadrille During the Battle of Verdun
Chalons-en-Argonne
Town Hall, Site of the Selection of the U.S. Unknown Soldier
Musee de la
Grande Guerre
Farewell
Dinner at the Golden Tulip Hotel in Paris, France (Roissy)
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