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A New View on the War
The Somme from AboveTaking a guided tour over the trenches by light aircraft gives you an interesting perspective on many aspects of a turbulent time in history, including troop deployment and other strategies.
Book a flight over the Somme battlefields with the Aéroclub de Picardie Amiens Metropole and, with the help of your English-speaking pilot-guide, you’ll grasp the strange and poetic beauty of a landscape indelibly marked by the traces of its violent history. You’ll also gain new insights into the strategies of some of the key battles that took place in this region during the Somme Offensive of 1916. During the 40-minute flight from Amiens, your pilot will point out sites such as the Château de Querrieu, stately seat of the British High Command during the Battle of the Somme, and Sainte-Colette hill, the site where notorious German fighter pilot, Manfred von Richthofen, nicknamed the Red Baron, met his end in a crash.