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Audie Murphy and Colmar Pocket a Private WWII Battlefield Tour

By On the Front Tours
Free cancellation available
Price is P 49,449 per traveler* *Get a lower price by selecting multiple travelers

Features

  • Free cancellation available
  • 5h
  • Mobile voucher
  • Instant confirmation
  • Selective hotel pickup

Overview

On the Front Tours is a specialist WWII operator. The Colmar Pocket is led by battlefield historian Matthew Menneke, featured on National Geographic and the Discovery Channel, so you get genuine expertise on the ground, not a script read from a card.

Because the tour is fully private, the day is built around your group alone — your pace, your questions, your interests. We don't combine you with strangers or rush a fixed timetable.

And we connect the whole campaign into one clear story. Most of these sites have a plaque and little else; the value is a specialist who can link a Maginot casemate, a river crossing, Audie Murphy's stand and the final break at Jebsheim into a single narrative you actually understand by the end.

  • Stand at Holtzwihr, where Audie Murphy won the Medal of Honor
  • Seven battlefield stops in chronological order across Alsace
  • Private tour, your group only, led by a specialist historian
  • Hotel pick-up from Colmar or Freiburg

Activity location

  • Memorial Museum of the Maginot Line of the Rhine
    • Rue du Rhin
    • 67390, Marckolsheim, Grand Est, France

Meeting/Redemption Point

  • Memorial Museum of the Maginot Line of the Rhine
    • Rue du Rhin
    • 67390, Marckolsheim, Grand Est, France

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Audie Murphy and Colmar Pocket a Private WWII Battlefield Tour

  • Activity duration is 5 hours5h
    5h
  • English

Pickup included

Language options: English
Starting time: 9:00
Price details
P 49,449.44 x 1 TravelerP 49,449.44
Total
Price is P 49,449.44
Until Sat, Jul 18

What's included, what's not

  • Inclusions
    Bottled water
  • Inclusions
    Private specialist battlefield historian
  • Inclusions
    Air-conditioned vehicle
  • Inclusions
    'Then & Now' photographs and battlefield maps
  • Exclusions
    Meals

Know before you book

    • Service animals allowed
    • Not recommended for travelers with spinal injuries
    • Not recommended for pregnant travelers
    • Not recommended for travelers with poor cardiovascular health
    • Suitable for all physical fitness levels

Activity itinerary

Memorial Museum of the Maginot Line of the Rhine

  • 30m
You begin in 1940 at a Maginot Line casemate on the Rhine, where the German invasion first broke into France. Five years later, the war returns to this same river. Your guide sets the scene for the whole campaign here.

Selestat

  • 30m
December 1944. Sélestat controls the roads feeding the German 19th Army. American infantry fight block by block, pushing tanks through roadblocks under fire to force the river crossings.

Kaysersberg

  • 30m
An American M4A4 Sherman stands at the town gate, where American and French forces broke into the Alsace wine country. You stand at the tank, on the ground its crews crossed.

American 21st Corps Monument

  • 30m
On Hill 351 — "Bloody Hill" — Able Company is cut off in the village below. Out of ammunition and surrounded, the survivors are captured and interrogated by Himmler himself.

Bennwihr

  • 30m
House by house, the village is destroyed overnight; by dawn it is rubble on fire. One of the most completely ruined villages of the entire campaign.

Holtzwihr Memorial to Audie Murphy

  • 30m
26 January 1945. Lieutenant Audie Murphy climbs onto a burning tank destroyer, alone, and turns its gun on German infantry at ten yards. Wounded, he holds the line, then counterattacks — the action that earned him the Medal of Honor. You stand where it happened.

Colmar Pocket Memorial

  • 30m
The "Alsatian Verdun." Three armies fight street to street through frozen snow as the town changes hands again and again. When the line finally breaks, the road to the Rhine opens.

Location

Activity location

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    Memorial Museum of the Maginot Line of the Rhine
    • Rue du Rhin
    • 67390, Marckolsheim, Grand Est, France

Meeting/Redemption Point

  • PEOPLEPEOPLE
    Memorial Museum of the Maginot Line of the Rhine
    • Rue du Rhin
    • 67390, Marckolsheim, Grand Est, France

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