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FRANCE
In addition to those listed below, just about anywhere in the St. Mihiel salient can be covered if requested beforehand, but the below are at least a three day trip. The numbers 1 to 9 are the standard trip and take about ten hours in total.
- The trenches of Bois le Prêtre (near Pont à Mousson) are in almost pristine condition. You can compare the French and German front line and even learn the difference between their barbed wire. (This is not suitable for people with mobility difficulties).

Barbed Wire Entanglement (Click to enlarge)
- The French cemetery of Montauville Le Pétant.

Bois le Prêtre Memorial (Click to enlarge)
- The ruined villages of Regnieville and Remenauville
- The trenches where Ernst Junger wrote Storm of Steel (This is not suitable for people with mobility difficulties).

German Fourth Line Trench Vieville-en-haye (Click to enlarge)
- The US cemetery at Thiaucourt
- The German cemetery at Thiaucourt that has Franco-Prussian war, World War One and World War Two graves.
- A German 380mm gun position to the north of Verdun.
- Camp Maguerre where the Germans experimented with concrete.
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Signal de Xon near Pont à Mousson.
Trench remains on Signal de Xon (Click to enlarge)
- The battlefield of 1870 around Gravelotte and St. Privat.
- The remains of a concentration camp near the Luxembourg border.* (advance notice required)
- Follow the track that the US army took in September 1918 as they conquered the St. Mihiel salient.
- ‘Flirey Quarries’ well known to every volunteer US ambulance driver.
- Fort Troyon, a key position in the fighting of 1914 (advanced notice required).
- Where Patton and Macarthur met for the only time.
- The site of a small battle in August 1914 for which Rommel did the reconnaissance.
* see Prices & Booking
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