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![Commander Task Force 122, OMAHA BEACH-EAST (Colleville-sur-Mer) [with:] OMAHA BEACH-WEST (Vierville-sur-Mer). NP, April 21, 1944.](https://bostonraremaps.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/BRM3518-Omaha-Beach_composite-scaled-e1582828932943-150x150.jpg)
A rare pair of planning maps depicting the Normandy coast at Colleville-sur-Mer and Vierville-sur-Mer, better known today simply as Omaha Beach. Issued less than a month before D-Day and bearing the ultra-secret “BIGOT” classification. “But nothing was more secret—or more vital to Operation Neptune—than the mosaic of Allied intelligence reports that cartographers and artists transformed […]
![UTAH BEACH… TOP SECRET BIGOT. [England], April 1944.](https://bostonraremaps.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/BRM3518A-Utah-Beach-photomosaic-1944_lowres-scaled-e1589110280890-150x150.jpg)
A rare composite photographic map prepared for the D-Day landing at Utah Beach. From the Neptune Monograph, the definitive briefing book issued to senior American officers in preparation for the landings, and bearing the ultra-secret “BIGOT” classification. “… nothing was more secret—or more vital to Operation Neptune—than the mosaic of Allied intelligence reports that cartographers […]
![[Utah Beach] [Untitled photomosaic map of beach on the east side of the Cotentin Peninsula in Normandy, remembered today as “Utah Beach.” No place, no date, but prob. England, early 1944.]](https://bostonraremaps.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/BRM3362-Utah-Beach-photomosaic-1944_lowres-e1567200755317-150x150.jpg)
A rare photomosaic map prepared for the D-Day landing at Utah Beach, bearing the very rare and ultra-secret “BIGOT” classification. With provenance to the aide-de-camp to U.S. Army Major General Harold W. Blakely (1893-1966), commander of the 4th Infantry Division during Operation Overlord. The original plan for Operation Overlord called for three Allied divisions to […]
![FIRST ENGINEER COMBAT BATTALION[:] FIELD ORDER #4[:] 13 MAY 1944 COPY NO. 8[:] TOP SECRET BIGOT “NEPTUNE”. England, May 13-21, 1944.](https://bostonraremaps.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/BRM4325-D-Day-William-Gara-BIGOT-briefing_beauty-shot_lowres-scaled-e1678788466815-150x150.jpg)
May 1944 field orders for the 1st Engineer Combat Battalion (ECB) bearing the ultra-secret “BIGOT” classification, issued just weeks before its D-Day landing at Omaha Beach and with provenance to unit commander William B. Gara. Possibly the only known surviving example. Of the five D-Day landing beaches, the experience of the American 1st and 29th Infantry Divisions […]
The Neptune Monograph, the definitive briefing book issued to senior American officers in preparation for the D-Day landings, with the famous two-sheet maps of Omaha and Utah Beaches. In the lead-up to Operation Neptune, better known as the D-Day landings on the coast of Normandy, a flood of reports, maps, and coastal profiles were prepared […]