Monday, June 25, 2018

PLANNING FOR OUR 2018 AEF WORLD WAR I CENTENNIAL TOUR!


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


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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