Who We Are

About D-Day Landing Tours

D-Day Landing Tours was founded with a single mission: to bring the history of the Normandy landings to life through expert-led, deeply personal battlefield experiences. We believe that standing on these beaches, in the footsteps of those who gave everything on June 6, 1944, is one of the most powerful and important things a person can do.

Based in Normandy, our team of professional guides combines scholarly knowledge with genuine passion. We have spent years researching the campaigns, walking every metre of the beaches, and building relationships with local historians, museums, and communities. The result is tours that go far beyond the surface, we tell the human stories behind the statistics.

We offer a full range of programmes: half-day and full-day tours covering the American, British, and Canadian sectors; specialist operational tours covering campaigns from Cobra to the Falaise Pocket; and bespoke private tours for families tracing their own heritage connections to D-Day.

Our goal is not simply to show you the sites, it is to ensure you leave with a profound understanding of what happened here, why it mattered, and why it must never be forgotten.

Meet Our Guide

Your Guide, Eric Le Doux-Turnbull

I was born in Paisley, Scotland in 1961. I am very proud to be Scottish. We are a proud nation full of history and tradition. Scotland and the rest of Britain still showed the effects of a long WW2, One could still see the places that had been bombed. There were veterans everywhere, proud persons living in hard times, all with their own stories, all carrying their own pain.

My mum’s side of the family, all grand parents and great uncles, had five men serving across the world. My dad’s side of the family had four serving men. Here’s a few of them. Uncle Bob was serving in the Royal Navy, captured by the Japanese in Hong Kong in 1941, survived.
My dad’s father worked for the government , received the MBE from the King. Uncle George was killed on D-Day , captain in the British 6th Airborne. My uncle Alex, often I refer to uncle Alex as my dad figure in life. He , his personality , his honour in what he had done to free the world , planted the seed that eventually led me here. Uncle Alex served with the Blackwatch Regiment , Scotland’s oldest, part of the 51st Highland Division, from El Alamein 1942 , across North Africa , Sicily, Normandy to the Rhine crossings, unfortunately he was very badly wounded after crossing the Rhine and spent the next seven years in hospital. He is my inspiration to tell the true history of what happened here in Normandy.

As a guide I have had on tour everyone from veterans, a 3 star American general, families following their family’s history, to people just wanting to understand more and pay one’s respect.
I think my best memory is of Cecil Newton , landed at Gold beach , 4/7 Dragoon Guards, in an amphibious tank. Cecil stayed with me over many years when he came to the ceremonies every year. I learnt a lot from Cecil. It was an honour to spend time with Cecil , or any veteran. The regimental monument to Cecil’s battalion is in Creuilly, they changed the name of the primary school there to Ecole Primaire Cecil Newton. I believe that Cecil is the only veteran to have a school in Normandy named after him. Cecil said tell nothing but the truth, my principle.

The more I guide , the more I learn, There is always more to learn