Knee Deep Into History Battlefield Tours

Knee Deep Into History Battlefield Tours We offer small group and individual tours of the WW1 and WW2 battlefields focused on getting clients into the field.

Beautiful morning at the Golden Age Air Museum in Bethel, PA. Lots of aircraft, reenactors and displays. Come on out and...
09/05/2026

Beautiful morning at the Golden Age Air Museum in Bethel, PA. Lots of aircraft, reenactors and displays. Come on out and visit!

A Military Weekend tradition: attending Chaplain John Uhler's Sunday morning church service in the field.
07/26/2026

A Military Weekend tradition: attending Chaplain John Uhler's Sunday morning church service in the field.

Enjoyed the fact that Bob and Jacque Knight stopped in to say hello. Christophe, why aren't you here?
07/25/2026

Enjoyed the fact that Bob and Jacque Knight stopped in to say hello. Christophe, why aren't you here?

My view this weekend. Come on out to Military Weekend at the WW2 American Experience Museum in Gettysburg, PA. KDIH had...
07/25/2026

My view this weekend. Come on out to Military Weekend at the WW2 American Experience Museum in Gettysburg, PA. KDIH had a table there. Drop in and say hello.

Another great thing about guiding is the ability to help families walk in the footsteps of their ancestors. In this case...
07/07/2026

Another great thing about guiding is the ability to help families walk in the footsteps of their ancestors. In this case, the father was a soldier in the 194th Glider Infantry Regiment, 17th Airborne Division.

His participation in combat was brief: He broke through the ice into the Laval River and was pulled out of the line for frostbite one or two days later--in early January 1945. Nevertheless, his children wanted to explore his brief participation in the fighting for Dead Man's Ridge.

We walked over five miles round trip. That is getting knee deep into history. But none of the family members chose to get wet in the river that altered the outcome of their father's war-time participation:-)

One of the joys of guiding is the opportunity to visit new sites on the battlefield. I had never stopped at Authuille Mi...
07/07/2026

One of the joys of guiding is the opportunity to visit new sites on the battlefield. I had never stopped at Authuille Military Cemetery on previous tours. This cemetery gets a lot of visitors, because there are two W. McBride's buried there--even though Eric Bogle states in "Returns to No Man's Land" that the inspiration for the song, "Green Fields of France" came from his first visit to the Ypres battlefield. Nevertheless, I added it to the itinerary and found a lot of interesting graves, including Indian graves, a VC winner and one German soldier. There were also a lot of 1915 graves.

A partial excerpt from the CWGC Website: "The village was held by British troops from the summer of 1915 to March, 1918, when it was captured in the German Offensive on the Somme; it was ruined by shell fire even before that date.

The Military Cemetery was used by Field Ambulances and fighting units from August, 1915 to December, 1916, and in 1917 and 1918 by Indian Labour Companies.

There are now over 450, 1914-18 war casualties commemorated in this site. Of these, nearly 40 are unidentified and special memorials are erected to 18 soldiers from the United Kingdom, known or believed to be buried among them. The graves of two other German soldiers have been removed."

07/06/2026

It's not every day you see a WW1 British tank moving into position. We were fortunate enough to witness this at Thiepval.

Inscribed with the names of more than 72,000 Commonwealth officers and men who fell in the Somme (1915-1918) and who hav...
07/06/2026

Inscribed with the names of more than 72,000 Commonwealth officers and men who fell in the Somme (1915-1918) and who have no known grave, the Thiepval Memorial is a stark reminder of the human cost of wars of attrition.

It was also fun to catch up with other tour guides on our 110th Anniversary Verdun and the Somme Tour. By accident we me...
07/06/2026

It was also fun to catch up with other tour guides on our 110th Anniversary Verdun and the Somme Tour. By accident we met Mike Cunha and Mihiel Oosterveld in Verdun at dinner time. We also arranged for a tour of the Ulster Tower and Ulster Division trenches with Austy Cheevers. Finally, Iain Roy McHenry was at the Ulster Tower with his tour group.

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