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
Five years later, the war returns to this same river. Your guide sets the scene for the whole campaign here.
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.
You stand at the tank, on the ground its crews crossed.
Out of ammunition and surrounded, the survivors are captured and interrogated by Himmler himself.
One of the most completely ruined villages of the entire campaign.
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.
When the line finally breaks, the road to the Rhine opens.
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.
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
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