The Michigan football team visits Normandy, the beaches on the coast of northern France where the U.S. and its allies invaded during World War II. Nick Baumgardner, Detroit Free Press
Michigan football's overseas trip to France this spring came with a donor-funded price tag of more than $1 million.
Per information obtained by the Free Press via a Freedom of Information Act request, the seven-day trip to France — which included visits to Paris, Normandy and Versailles — came with a $979,641 price in "trip expenses" and a $27,627 cost in "security service cost.