Walking in Their Footsteps

13/07/2026

📱 Big news from Walking in Their Footsteps!

We're building a dedicated native app for iOS and Android, and it's going to transform how you explore the D-Day beaches and battlefields of Normandy.

First up, we've got a new home on the web. You can now find us at walkingintheirfootsteps.com (dday.tours still works too).

And what does "going native" mean for you?

🗺️ Smooth, responsive maps that work beautifully as you walk the ground
🎧 Audio narration that plays reliably in your pocket, even on the beaches with patchy signal
📍 GPS-triggered stories, approach a key location and the app tells you what happened right where you're standing
📴 Full offline capability, download everything before you travel, no data roaming worries

This isn't a website squeezed into a phone. It's a purpose-built companion for walking the ground where history was made.

The web app isn't going anywhere, the native app shares the same content, the same tours, the same narrations. Just a better experience in the field, where it matters most.

More updates coming soon. If you're planning a Normandy trip in 2026 or 2027, this one's for you.

👉 walkingintheirfootsteps.com

02/06/2026

You're standing at Omaha Beach and your phone knows exactly where you are.

The moment you step into the GPS zone, Walking in Their Footsteps triggers the audio narration automatically. No searching. No tapping. Just the history of that exact spot, in your language, in your ear.

Interactive maps show every site. Curated routes connect them. And if you're visiting with kids, the junior narrations are written specifically for younger ears - same history, right level.

This is what an access pass unlocks. Link in the first comment.

26/05/2026

We are building the app with all ages in mind, that way we can educate the next generation will also be aware of the sacrifices made for our freedom, this is an expensive hobby and any help you could give us would be gratefully appreciated, please donate to our work via our "Buy me a coffee" link below, your help and support will help us grow quicker.

We are Digital Battlefields (Worldwide) Ltd, a small team based in Normandy, France, building the tools that help people walk the ground where history happened.Our app, Walking in Their Footsteps (dda

26/05/2026

Our new kickstarter video will be live soon

26/05/2026

We have added over 30 new locations to the Walking in Their Footsteps app, taking the total past 130 sites across the D-Day beaches and the Normandy campaign. New landing sites, drop zones, memorials, cemeteries, and walking routes connecting the headline sites to the places the tour buses never reach. If you used the app last summer, open it again. The map has changed.
New mini-tour routes let you plan a morning at Utah Beach, an afternoon in the bocage, or a full day across the British sector from Gold to Sword, all with GPS waypoints and walking directions on your phone. No hired guide needed.
And now there is a book to go with it.
Borne to Win: On Foot from Utah Beach to Bastogne with the Third Army is now live on Amazon. It is the first walking guide to the Voie de la Liberté, the chain of 1,147 stone markers the French government planted along the route Patton's Third Army took from the Normandy coast to the Ardennes. Twenty chapters. What happened in 1944, what is there today, how to walk it.
The colonel who saved Chartres Cathedral and died the same day. The African American drivers of the Red Ball Express. The Polish soldiers who held a hilltop above the Falaise Pocket and would not move. The schoolroom in Reims where Germany surrendered. The moment at Verdun where the Liberty Road meets the Sacred Way of 1916, and two wars stand on the same ground.
No book has covered this route before. The app is its companion. The book tells the story. The app walks you through it.
We are also launching walkingthebornes.com, a community registry where walkers can photograph, map and adopt the bornes along the route. Leave a digital pebble when you visit one.
1,147 stones. 1,145 kilometres. One road.
dday.tours | walkingthebornes.com | Amazon: https://a.co/d/02dXWPvn

06/01/2026

Our latest original 'Then & Now' comparison brings us to Rue du Cap de Laine in Sainte-Mère-Église, where a scene from June 7th, 1944 is superimposed with the same street as it appears today. On D-Day plus one, troops of the 4th US Infantry Division, advancing inland from Utah Beach, linked up here with paratroopers of the 82nd Airborne Division.

The original image shows a jeep heavily loaded with American soldiers passing the former Hospice building on the left. This structure housed 505th Regimental Aid Station No. 2, which by the end of June 6 already contained 120 wounded American soldiers. More than seven decades later, the appearance of this street has changed very little.

Explore D-Day locations & historical comparisons ➡️ www.dday.tours

30/12/2025

If you haven't already, please consider also following us on Instagram today :

👉 www.instagram.com/dday.tours

30/12/2025

The latest photograph we have colourised shows an American GI playing a piano inside a French civilian home during the Normandy campaign in 1944. The image captures a moment away from active operations during the period following the D-Day landings.

Photographs like this provide insight into the daily lives of Allied soldiers in Normandy, showing how civilian spaces were sometimes used while units moved through liberated areas during the campaign.

Explore D-Day via our AR immersive GPS tour guide ➡️ www.dday.tours

26/12/2025

Wishing all our followers, patrons, sponsors and supporters a very Merry Christmas and a Happy & Healthy 2026.

26/12/2025

If you haven't already visited the "Tiger" in Vimoutiers, put it on your list for 2026.

Hidden in the small French town of Vimoutiers stands one of the last surviving German Tiger I tanks from World War II. Left behind after the Battle of Norman...