Audie Murphy and Colmar Pocket a Private WWII Battlefield Tour

Freiburg, Germany
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Duration5h
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LanguagesEnglish
Private tourOnly your group will participate
Pickup offeredSee the meeting and pickup details below

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

What's included

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

What to expect

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. 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.

Meeting and pickup

Pickup details

For private tours, we confirm your exact pickup point and time directly with you before the tour. Pickup is from your accommodation in the Colmar, Freiburg, Breisach or Mulhouse. After booking, we'll be in touch to arrange the details around your plans — so the day runs around you, not a fixed timetable.

Additional information

  • 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

Cancellation policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
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