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Ray Pfeiffer is the only American WWII Tour Director to have actually lived in Normandy. From 2002 to 2008 he and Cristy lived in a home on Omaha Beach. Ray directed group tours and private tours for many groups and guided 350 private tours. Ray knows every inch of Normandy. He guided tours for White House staff as well as Congressional delegations and former Speaker of the House Hastert. Ray and Cristy now spend the spring and fall directing tours in Europe and their winters are spent in the Tampa Bay area of Florida. Their booking offices are in New Jersey.
Since 1983 Historic Tours has been designing and operating World War II and Cold War historic tours of Europe and Australia. We have been privileged to design and to guide tours for many prestigious organizations including:
In 1992 Historic Tours was the only American tour operator to design and operate tours to Australia and Fiji to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Battle of the Coral Sea. Over 250 members of the U.S. Navy Memorial Foundation and the U.S. Fifth Air Force Memorial Foundation traveled with us. In June 1994 we brought over 1,000 tour members to Normandy to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the D-Day landings. For both commemorations they worked closely with the Allied governments to actually design many of the events.
Over the years we have worked with hundreds of towns in Europe to arrange for parades, receptions and monument dedications to welcome back the Americans who liberated them from Nazi oppression. On June 7, 1994 we hosted the Red, White and Blue Victory Dance at the town square in Avranches, France. This major D-Day commemorative event was attended only by our 1,000 tour members and townspeople. The event featured the U.S. Navy's Sixth Fleet Band.