FROM ALDBOURNE TO ZELL AM SEE - September 8 to 23, 2019 a program of the stanford alumni association
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S T A N F O R D T R A V E L / S T U D Y
F RO M A L DB O U R N E T O Z E L L A M S E E
S e p te mber 8 to 23, 2019
a p ro g ra m of th e st a nfo rd
a lu m ni asso ciati o n
The year 2019 marks the
75th anniversary of the D-Day invasion, and I’m
proud to present this new program developed in
partnership with The National WWII Museum. You’ll
be mesmerized by the sites we visit as we loosely
trace the path of Easy Company, made famous by
the book and HBO miniseries, Band of Brothers,
from its training location in England to the sites of
some of the last battles of Europe, in Austria. This
memorable itinerary is packed with battle sites,
memorials, cemeteries, museums, lectures and
personal meetings with locals. With faculty leader
James Sheehan, ’58, join us on this in-depth look at
some of the most storied battle zones and locations
of some of the defining moments and pivotal battles
of the Second World War.
B R E T T S. T H O M P S O N , ’ 8 3, D I R E CTO R , S TA N F O R D T R AV E L / S T U DY
Highlights
W A L K along Omaha E X P L O R E the very T A K E I N the spectacu-
Beach and tour Pointe du foxholes dug by members lar views of the Alps from
Hoc, where Army Rangers of Easy Company in the the Eagle’s Nest, Hitler’s
scaled imposing 100-foot Bois Jacques at the Battle mountaintop Nazi meeting
cliffs on D-Day. of the Bulge in Belgium. place that was captured
by Allied forces in 1945.
COVER: UTAH BEACH LANDING MEMORIAL, FRANCE
JOHN FROST BRIDGE, ARNHEM, NETHERLANDS
Faculty Leader
J A M E S S H E E H A N , ’ 5 8 , is the Dickason Professor in
the Humanities and a professor emeritus of history at Stanford
University. His research focuses on 19th- and 20th-century
European history, specifically on the relationship between ideas
and social and economic conditions in modern Europe. His most
recent book, Where Have All the Soldiers Gone, examines the
decline of military institutions in Europe since 1945. He is now
writing a book about the rise of European states in the modern
“[Jim] is now one of era. About this program, Jim writes: “Like the Civil War, the
Second World War had a powerful impact on the way Americans
Stanford’s faculty viewed themselves and their place in the world. This trip will help
leaders whom I will us understand the war itself and the way the war shaped the
actively seek out for following decades.”
trips. His lectures were — Professor emeritus, department of history, and senior
outstanding and he fellow, by courtesy, Freeman Spogli Insititute for
International Studies, Stanford University
was one of the most — Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching and Walter
available and friendly J. Gores Award for Excellence in Teaching—both
Stanford University, 1993
leaders with whom — Guggenheim Fellow, 2000–2001
I have traveled.” — Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
— BA, history, 1958, Stanford University
BRIAN MCKENNA, — MA, 1959, and PhD, 1964—both history, UC-Berkeley
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CLERVAUX CASTLE, CLERVAUX, LUXEMBOURG
U NITED T HE
K INGDOM N ETHERLANDS
Aldbourne Eindhoven
London G ERMANY
Portsmouth B ELGIUM
Bastogne Clervaux
Bayeux
Utah L UXEMBOURG
Beach Ouistreham
Ettlingen Berchtesga
Haguenau
Omaha Dachau
Beach
Munich
Z
F RANCE am
SWITZERLAND AUST
ITALY
Itinerary WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 11
ALDBOURNE /
PORTSMOUTH /
F R I DAY, S E P T E M B E R 13
BAYEUX /
BEUZEVILLE-AU-
OUISTREHAM, PLAIN / CARENTAN
S U N DAY & M O N DAY, FRANCE / BAYEUX This morning visit Beuzeville-
SEPTEMBER 8 & 9 Depart Aldbourne for Ports- au-Plain to view the monument
DEPART U.S. / mouth, where we visit the depicting Lt. Thomas Meehan’s
LONDON, ENGLAND / newly refurbished D-Day Story downed C-47. This afternoon,
ALDBOURNE Museum and enjoy a pub lunch hear more about Easy Com-
Upon arrival in London on before taking a ferry across the pany at the crucial town of
overnight flights from the U.S., English Channel to Normandy Carentan, which linked the
head west of the city toward the and continuing to our hotel in Utah and Omaha Beach forces.
training areas of Easy Company Bayeux. HOTEL LION D’OR (B,L,D) Stop at the Dead Man’s Corner
(2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Museum and visit the church
Infantry Regiment, 101st Air- T H U R S DAY, S EP T EM B ER 12 at Angoville-au-Plain, ending
borne Division of the U.S. Army), BAYEUX / SAINTE- our day with a special dinner
immortalized by the book and MÈRE-ÉGLISE / at Château Brouay, a historical
HBO TV series, Band of Broth- SAINTE-MARIE-DU-
manor home with one of the
ers. We’ll trace Easy Company’s MONT / UTAH BEACH
oldest Calvados distilleries in
movements from England to Depart for the small town of
the region. HOTEL LION D’OR (B,L,D)
Austria during our trip. After ar- Sainte-Mère-Église to visit the
riving at our hotel in Aldbourne, church made famous by the
S AT U R DAY, S E P T E M B E R 14
gather for a welcome reception film, The Longest Day, and BAYEUX / POINTE DU
and dinner. DONNINGTON VALLEY the Airborne Museum before HOC / OMAHA BEACH
HOTEL & SPA (9/9: D) an exclusive tour of Brécourt Explore the area around Omaha
Manor, site of Easy Company’s Beach during our final day in
T U ES DAY, S E P T E M B E R 10 heroic action on June 6, 1944. Normandy. Tour Pointe du Hoc,
ALDBOURNE After lunch, take a driving tour where Army Rangers had to
Explore Aldbourne, the village of Sainte-Marie-du-Mont before scale imposing 100-foot cliffs,
that welcomed Easy Company heading to Marmion Farm, and walk along Omaha Beach.
more than 75 years ago, on where Easy Company para- Then visit the Normandy Ameri-
a walking tour that includes a troopers were photographed can Cemetery, where more than
visit to the Aldbourne Heritage holding a captured Nazi flag 9,000 Americans are laid to
Center. Enjoy lunch at a local on D-Day. End the day at Utah rest. Enjoy free time to explore
pub, then return to our hotel for Beach for a tour of the land- Bayeux and have dinner at one
an afternoon and evening at ing sites and a visit to the Utah of its many charming restau-
leisure. DONNINGTON VALLEY HOTEL Beach Museum. HOTEL LION rants. HOTEL LION D’OR (B,L)
& SPA (B,L) D’OR (B,L,D)
aden
Zell
m See
TRIA
S U N DAY, S E P T E M B E R 15 and Robert Cole memori- Battle of the Bulge. This after-
BAYEUX / AMIENS als. This afternoon, tour the noon, we can opt to climb into
/ EINDHOVEN, THE Netherlands American Cem- the very foxholes dug by Easy
NETHERLANDS etery in Margraten, visiting the Company in the Bois Jacques
Depart Normandy this morning gravesites of several members and take a tour of the Bastogne
by motor coach for the Neth- of Easy Company. Cross into Barracks, where General Tony
erlands. While en route, listen Luxembourg and continue to McAuliffe of the 101st gave
to exclusive oral histories of our hotel in the medieval market his famous reply of “NUTS!”
Easy Company men from the town of Clervaux, a key location to the Germans’ request that
collection of The National World in the Battle of the Bulge. HOTEL the Americans surrender. Our
War II Museum in New Orleans. INTERNATIONAL CLERVAUX (B,D) day ends with a tour of the
Stop for lunch in Amiens as we Bastogne War Museum. HOTEL
make our way to Eindhoven. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18 INTERNATIONAL CLERVAUX (B,D)
PULLMAN HOTEL EINDHOVEN (B,D) CLERVAUX /
DASBURG, GERMANY F R I DAY, S E P T E M B E R 20
M O N DAY, S E P T E M B E R 16 Visit Dasburg in Germany, CLERVAUX, LUXEM-
EINDHOVEN / NIJME- where the Germans crossed BOURG / HAMM /
GEN / ARNHEM into Luxembourg via the Our HAGUENAU, FRANCE /
Explore the American areas of River, then return to Clervaux, ETTLINGEN,
Operation Market Garden, the where we hear the role the bat- GERMANY
failed Allied attempt to cross the tle-weary 28th Infantry Division Visit the Luxembourg Ameri-
Rhine River in September 1944, played in helping to ensure that can Cemetery and Memorial in
and learn how Easy Company Bastogne could be reinforced Hamm this morning, with the
helped rescue more than 100 by the 101st Division. Spend opportunity to view the graves
British airborne troops stuck the rest of the day at leisure in of Easy Company soldiers and
behind enemy lines across the Clervaux, enjoying this beautiful General George S. Patton. Stop
Rhine during Operation Pega- village nestled in the mountains
sus. Later, visit Arnhem and its of northern Luxembourg. HOTEL
famous “bridge too far” before INTERNATIONAL CLERVAUX (B)
returning to Eindhoven for an
evening at leisure. PULLMAN HOTEL T H U R S DAY, S EP T EM B ER 19
EINDHOVEN (B,L) CLERVAUX, LUXEM-
BOURG / BASTOGNE,
T U ES DAY, S E P T E M B E R 17 BELGIUM
EINDHOVEN / CLER- Visit the Mardasson Memorial
VAUX, LUXEMBOURG near Bastogne this morning,
This morning, go on an optional honoring American soldiers
tour of Eindhoven, which in- wounded or killed during the
cludes visits to the Joe Mann
ZELL AM SEE, AUSTRIA
for lunch in Haguenau, then S U N DAY, S E P T E M B E R 2 2 ruins of Berghof, Hitler’s
walk the “last patrol” of Easy ZELL AM SEE / mountain chalet. Back in
Company, where the “band BERCHTESGADEN, Zell am See, visit locales
of brothers” held fast against GERMANY where Easy Company was
Operation Nordwind for more Today we head to Berchtes- stationed after V-E Day, then
than a month. Visit the MM gaden in Germany to take in enjoy a farewell reception
Park Museum, a new mu- the spectacular views from tonight. GRAND HOTEL ZELL AM
seum near Strasbourg with an Eagle’s Nest, Hitler’s moun- SEE (B,L,D)
impressive collection of tanks taintop Nazi meeting place
and other large artifacts of the built in 1937–38 and captured M O N DAY, S E P T E M B E R 23
era. Spend tonight in the Ger- by Allied forces in May 1945. ZELL AM SEE,
In nearby Obersalzberg, visit AUSTRIA / MUNICH,
man town of Ettlingen. HOTEL
the former headquarters and GERMANY / U.S.
ERBPRINZ (B,L)
bunkers of the SS at the Hotel After breakfast, transfer to the
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 21 Zum Türken and survey the airport in Munich for flights
ETTLINGEN / home. (B)
DACHAU / ZELL
AM SEE, AUSTRIA
Depart this morning for
Dachau. Located 10 miles Optional Pre-trip
northwest of Munich, the
Dachau Concentration Camp
was established in 1933 to
Extension
hold political prisoners, but S E P T E M B E R 6 TO 9
through the 1930s the camp CHURCHILL’S LONDON
grew to hold Jews, Roma,
Spend a day and a half exploring WWII-related sites in
Slavs and other groups
deemed unworthy by the London. Tour the Churchill War Rooms, get the lay of the
Nazis. The camp was liberated land on a short panoramic tour of London and go on a
on April 29, 1945, by American guided tour of the Imperial War Museum. Finish with an
troops, who were horrified exclusive, private tour of St. Paul’s Cathedral, including
by the conditions they found. the Crypt and a performance of Evensong.
Following our sobering visit to
Dachau, head for Zell am See Additional details and pricing for the extension will be
in the Bavarian Alps. GRAND provided to confirmed participants.
HOTEL ZELL AM SEE (B,L)
Trip Information
and baggage insurance Excess-baggage charges
Personal items such as internet access, telephone and
fax calls, laundry and gratuities for nongroup services
AIR ARRANGEMENTS
DATES
You are responsible for booking and purchasing airfare
September 8 to 23, 2019 (16 days)
to the start location and from the end location of the
SIZE program. These air purchases are NOT included in the
45 participants (single accommodations program cost. To assist you in making these independent
limited—please call for availability) arrangements, we will send you information with your
confirmation materials on when to arrive and depart.
COST*
$8,995 per person, double occupancy WHAT TO E XPECT
$10,995 per person, single occupancy We consider this to be a moderately strenuous program
*Stanford Alumni Association nonmembers add $300 per person that is at times physically demanding and busy. Most days
include a full schedule of excursions, lectures and special
INCLUDED
events and involve one to three miles of walking in cities, at
14 nights of deluxe hotel accommodations
museums and at sites and cemeteries, sometimes on uneven
14 breakfasts, 9 lunches and 8 dinners Welcome and
surfaces, cobblestone streets, wet terrain or sand. Daily
farewell receptions Beer, wine and soft drinks with
activities involve standing for extended periods of time during
included group lunches and dinners Gratuities to
tours of museums, battle sites and cemeteries. Guided tours
guides and drivers for all group activities All tours and
may require climbing up and down several flights of stairs,
excursions as described in the itinerary Private, first-
sometimes without handrails. The properties featured on
class motor coach transportation Transfers and bag-
this tour are quaint, historic boutique hotels. Room sizes,
gage handling on program arrival and departure days
décor and bathroom configuration may differ within the same
Minimal medical, accident and evacuation insurance
property. Not all hotels have elevators; ground floor rooms
Educational program with lecture series and pre-
can be requested but are not guaranteed. Group meals
departure materials, including recommended read-
feature two to three courses with a set menu and, as such,
ing list, a selected book, map and travel information
dietary restrictions must be communicated prior to departure.
Services of our professional tour manager to assist you
The majority of travel is done by motor coach, with the longest
throughout the program
drive lasting approximately seven hours (including stops).
NOT INCLUDED Some sites do not allow the motor coaches to pull directly
International and U.S. domestic airfare Passport and in front, thus requiring a short walk to reach the entrance.
visa fees Immunization costs Meals and beverages Participants must be physically fit, in good health and able to
other than those specified as included Independent keep up with the group without assistance from tour staff. We
and private transfers Trip-cancellation/interruption welcome travelers 15 years of age and older on this program.
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“This was the most intellectually and emotionally
engaging trip I have ever been on.”
J A N E A DA M S , R E M E M B E R I N G W O R L D WA R S I A N D I I , 2 013
S T A N F O R D T R A V E L / S T U D Y
MISSING IN ACTION MONUMENT, LUXEMBOURG AMERICAN
CEMETERY AND MEMORIAL, HAMM, LUXEMBOURG
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