AEF in France 1918
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July 8th , Tuesday. Group gathers at the Paris CDG Airport, Millennium Hotel by 1900 hrs for Welcome Dinner.

July 9th, Wednesday. Coach to Rheims. See 1945 WW 2 Armistice signing building, have a Champagnery tour and tasting. Continue to the Chateau Thiery battlefield and Quentin Roosevelt’s crash site. Check in to Verdun hotel for three nights.

July 10th, Thursday. Visit the Meuse-Argonne battlefields and cemetery.

July 11th, Friday. Verdun American-French battlefields.

July 12th, Saturday. Check out, drive to St. Mihiel, Metz (WW 2/Patton), through the Maginot Line, Luxembourg City (Patton’s gravesite) arriving in Bastogne for three nights (Melba Best Western Hotel).

July 13th, Sunday. Tour the Bastogne-Noville-St Vith area.

July 14th, Monday. Hurtgen Forest (the “Oct-Nov ’44 Slaughter House”) and follow Col. Joachim Peiper’s thrust from Losheim to la Gleize via Malmedy.

July 15th, Tuesday. Check out, visit several unique sites on our way to the Waterloo Battlefield and our last night hotel, in Bruselles, where our Farwell Dinner will be held at the famous Grande Place (even Hitler dined there).

July 16th, Wednesday. Check out and bus to the airport for our respective departures.