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![Segeant Turner[?], OMAHA BEACH FRANCE 1944. England, mid-May / early June, 1944?](https://bostonraremaps.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/BRM4045-Omaha-Beach-manuscript-1944_lowres-scaled-e1637436786854-150x148.jpg)
A rare and extremely dramatic manuscript tactical map of the Omaha Beach village of Les Moulins and its immediate surroundings, almost certainly drawn from confidential sources in the days or weeks before D-Day. Background Of the five D-Day landing beaches, that of the American 1st and 29th Infantry Divisions at Omaha was by far the […]
![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 […]
![Co. B, 660th Engrs. USA, FRANCE 1:25,000 [:] DEFENCES STE. MERE EGLISE. [:] Sheet No. 31/18 N.E. [:] SECOND EDITION (APR. 44) [:] INFORMATION AS AT MAY 44. [England,] May 1944.](https://bostonraremaps.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/BRM3360-Sainte-Mere-Eglise-May-1944_lowres-e1568115623645-150x150.jpg)
A rare “Top Secret” map depicting the area around Sainte-Mère-Eglise, a key Normandy crossroads and the first town liberated during Operation Overlord. The map was issued just weeks before D-Day, and has provenance to the aide-de-camp to U.S. Army Major General Harold W. Blakely (1893-1966), commander of the 4th Infantry Division, which spearheaded the landing […]
![[ Operation Bodyguard ] Disposition of Known German Forces in France & Low Countries as of 16 April 1944… SECRET. [England], April 1944.](https://bostonraremaps.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/BRM3518C-German-troop-concentrations-in-France_lowres-150x150.jpg)
“Secret” map of France and the Low Countries, showing U.S. intelligence about the disposition of German forces less than eight weeks before D-Day. The map was issued as part of the famed and very highly sought-after Neptune Monograph. The map illustrates the presumed positions of 53 divisions spread across France, Belgium, and the Netherlands. It […]
![[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 […]
![[Co. B, 660th Engrs. USA], FRANCE 1:25,000 [:] DEFENCES CARENTAN [:] Sheet No. 31/18 S.E. [:] Edition of June 1943 [:] Information as at May 44. [England,] May 1944.](https://bostonraremaps.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/BRM3361-Defences-Carentan-1944_lowres-e1568221963646-150x150.jpg)
A rare “Top Secret” map depicting the area around Carentan, a key Normandy crossroads and the scene of ferocious fighting from June 6-13, 1944. The town’s capture by elements of the 101st Airborne Division consolidated the Omaha and Utah beachheads, giving American forces a continuous defensive line to face German counterattacks. The map was issued […]
![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 […]
![[Probably Co. B, 660th Engrs. USA], FRANCE 1:25,000 [:] DEFENCES BAYEUX [:] Sheet No. 37/16 N.W. [:] Edition of June 1943 [:] Information as at May 44. [England,] May 1944.](https://bostonraremaps.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/BRM3986_4-Defences-Bayeux-1944_lowres-150x150.jpg)
A very rare “Top Secret” map depicting the environs of Bayeux, a key Normandy crossroads just a few miles inland from “Gold” Beach. Issued in May 1944, just weeks before the D-Day landings, the map is extremely detailed, overlaid with the most up-to-date tactical intelligence available to the Allies. From the collection of Louis J. […]
![“Printed under the Superintendence of Vice-Admiral Sir John Edgell, K.B.E., C.B., F.R.S., Hydrographer”, OMAHA AREA [:] TOP SECRET [:] ON.1 APPENDIX VII ANNEXE A INFORMATION UP TO 6TH APRIL 1944. [London?: War Office? Royal Navy?], 1944.](https://bostonraremaps.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/BRM4078-Edgell_Admiralty-Omaha-Area-1944_lowres-150x150.jpg)
A rare map depicting the Normandy coast at Colleville-sur-Mer, St. Laurent-sur-Mer and Vierville-sur-Mer, better known today simply as Omaha Beach. Issued less than two months before D-Day and bearing the “Top Secret” classification. Of the five D-Day landing beaches, that of the American 1st and 29th Infantry Divisions at Omaha was by far the most […]