• Meet your tour guide upon arrival and start your guided tour and drive to Ieper (Ypres) in Belgium, and orient ourselves with a visit to landmarks and the Flanders Fields Museum
• On this day, explore the service of Americans in the Ypres area. Many Americans served as volunteers with the British and Canadian forces.
• See the battles of 1914 And 1915 through the eyes of Americans such as Frederick Coleman. An American businessman living in London, Coleman answered a call from the Royal Automobile Club for car owners to volunteer to support the British Expeditionary Force.
• Notice where Stanley Willis wood from Kansas city fought. A regular US Officer, Wood commanded a company in the Canadian Highlanders. This gallant officer fell at the head of his men at Mount Sorrell, a Canadian battlefield.
• Tour where Canadian Doctor John MacCrae wrote the poem In Flanders Fields, which inspired American poet Moina Michael’s response and the origin of the Poppy as a symbol of Remembrance.
• Follow the story of Edward Revere Osler, the great-great-grandson of patriot Paul Revere. He served in the Canadian Red Cross then as an officer in the Royal Field Artillery, where he was killed in the mud of the Passchendaele offensive.
• See how the medical services worked, hear their stories and visit the places they worked at. Professor Harvey Cushing was already an eminent neurosurgeon at the start of the first world war and an early volunteer to serve with the British and French. Soon after the entry of the US into the war, Cushing deployed with an American Medical column which supported the British in Flanders during the horrific third battle of Ypres. 
• Visit the Vierstraat memorial to the AEF 27th and 30th divisions that captured the area in 1918, and we here about the stories of the men for whom this was their introduction to the battle. You visit some preserved trenches.
• In the evening, attend the last Post service held every day at 8 pm at the Menin Gate. Lay a wreath to commemorate and remember the soldiers who served here.

Overnight stay at Ieper.

• Pass across the 1916 battlefield. The villages of Serre and Puisieux were close to the fateful front of the 1916 battle but liberated by the 80th US Division in 1918. We will also hear the stories of some of the Americans who served in 1916.
• Drive to le Hamel near Amiens and see where American troops helped stop the German 1918 offensive and turn the tide alongside the Australian Corps on July 4th, 1918. 
• South of the Somme lies the village of Cantigny. The 1st US Division took over this sector on April 27th 1918, the first on an active battlefront to be placed under American command. On May 27th, the 1st Division carried out a model, successful attack supported by French artillery and tanks.
• Travel back across the 1916 battlefield to visit the village of Belloy-en-Santerre and see the memorial to the American War poet Alan Seeger who fell here on July 4th, 1916, as a French foreign legionnaire in the capture of this village.
• Move east to see where the part that the US IInd Corps played in the British Army’s successful attack on the Hindenburg Line in 1918 and their operations following up the Germans.
• End the day at the Somme American Cemetery at Bony. Where 1,844 American soldiers who fell on the Somme battlefields lie and 333 missing are commemorated.

Overnight stay at Arras.

• Depart the hotel and drive to Vimy Ridge, a preserved battlefield and site of major action by the Canadian army corps.
• Hear the stories of Americans who served in the Canadian Army. There is a wild west connection. Lieutenant Tolford Hamilton Murray, who died leading a mounted patrol, is believed to be a veteran of the 7th US Cavalry. At the same time, Private Joseph Standing Buffalo, grandson of Sitting Bull, is buried a few miles away.
• Visit the international memorial at Lorette de Notre Dame, which list 580,000 names of the men of all nationalities who died in the Region du Nord.
• Return to Belgium as see where some 45,000 Americans fought in the Army of the King of the Belgians in their advance across America’s own Flanders Fields in October and November 1918.
• Follow their route from Waregem to Audenaarde, where the American 37th Division seized crossings over the Scheldt and their pursuit.
• Visit the American Flanders Fields Cemetery and return to Lille.