1650 mile/2640 km expedition encompassing 6 countries in 10 days, this non-speed event comprising a maximum of 45 teams will be part history tour, fun competition, part off-road driving and part club-type social, open to all types of
4x4 vehicles.
The rally follows the path and tells the story of the Allied Invasion through Europe. It includes parts fabled by the Band of Brothers book and television series. As young men, who knew extraordinary bravery and extraordinary fear, the Allied Forces landed in France early on D-Day morning – 6th June 1944. The liberation of Europe had commenced. In addition to Normandy, the H4H Rally route will visit the Market Garden and Rhine offensives at Arnhem, Holland, where on 17th September 1944, in the largest airborne operation ever seen, thousands of paratroopers descended from the sky by parachute or glider up to 150 km behind enemy lines.
The event will start at Noon on Saturday 19th June 2010 at a secret location in North Wiltshire. After using byways on Salisbury Plain we will all go to Portsmouth to embark on the ferry over to France. Our route moves south, to Bastogne in Belgium where in the coldest winter for decades, the Germans made a final push – the Battle of the Bulge. Towards Germany, the rally routing is via Fort Simserhof, Siersthal in Alsace, France a Maginot Line fortification, then onto Dachau and its horrors of war. We end our journey at Hitler's "impenetrable" Eagle's Nest at Berchtesgaden.
