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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 surviving example. Of the five D-Day landing beaches, the experience of the American 1st and 29th Infantry Divisions at […]
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 […]
![Headquarters, IX Air Force; Headquarters, IX Air Command; Headquarters, IX Engineer Command; and anonymous, [Archive of orders, briefing materials, and maps issued to the 64th Airdrome Squadron in the weeks before D-Day, many marked “Top Secret – BIGOT”, plus a unit history of the 64th.] [Mostly England], mostly May 10-June 7, 1944.](https://bostonraremaps.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/BRM4387-IX-TAC-D-Day-archive-1944_beauty-shot_lowres-150x150.jpg)
An extremely rare and very rich archive of orders, briefing materials and maps, many marked “Top Secret – BIGOT”. Printed in the weeks before D-Day and received by an officer or officers of the 64th Airdrome Squadron, which played a vital role in the construction of airfields across Western Europe during the last year of […]
A scarce map depicting the Normandy coast at Vierville-sur-Mer, better known today simply as Omaha Beach, issued just weeks 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 into the multihued and multilayered BIGOT maps.” […]