{"title":"Assault Force U Operation Order No. 3-44","description":"\u003cp\u003eAssault Force U was the American naval force charged with landing VII Corps at Utah Beach on D-Day—the “U” denoted Utah. Issued on 15 May 1944, its Operation Order No. 3-44 was the plan for the seaborne assault, with maps, annexes and supporting papers marked BIGOT–Top Secret. The three original naval overlay maps gathered here are surviving parts of that extensive order, accompanied by Intelligence Plan sheets and Assembly and Staging papers bearing Serial 00010. They form a selected group, not the full order. The maps and papers were kept by Lieutenant Carl M. Good Jr, commander of the US Navy subchaser SC-1301. His vessel appears in the Assembly and Staging papers at Dartmouth. On 6 June she worked between the transport ships and Utah Beach, shepherding landing craft towards shore. Crewman Fletcher later recalled escorting craft into the beach; Good’s own account describes SC-1301 controlling the movement of landing craft from the transport area during the opening days of the invasion. Good retained this material after the war, and it remained in his family for over eighty years before consignment to auction in 2026. Certified letters trace its descent, while Navy muster rolls name Good in command of the vessel on D-Day\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"d-day-top-secret-bigot-utah-beach-gunfire-map-intelligence-plan-us-navy-1944-p-8-007083","title":"D-Day Top Secret—BIGOT Utah Beach gunfire support map \u0026 Intelligence Plan—Lt. Good—US Navy 1944","description":"\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e'BIGOT—TOP SECRET—Gunfire-support overlay, with Annex Able Intelligence Plan—Appendix 1 to Annex Dog; Annex Able sheets 1–19'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis is an original BIGOT–Top Secret naval bombardment overlay for Utah Beach, issued to Assault Force U before D-Day, 6 June 1944, with nineteen sheets of the force's Intelligence Plan. Laid over a 1:50,000 map, it fixes the firing stations of the Pearl Harbor veteran Nevada, the cruisers Tuscaloosa, Quincy and Black Prince and their destroyers, to be taken before H-40, forty minutes before the first troops landed; among them is USS Corry, sunk that morning. BIGOT was the invasion's highest level of secrecy, reserved for those who needed to know where and when it would strike. The Intelligence Plan, Serial 00010, also BIGOT and dated 15 May 1944, briefs the force on the Utah beaches, obstacles and German defences; sheet 20 is absent. Both were retained by Lieutenant Carl M. Good Jr, whose subchaser SC-1301 spent D-Day shepherding landing craft between the troopships and Utah Beach, and stayed in his family for over eighty years. \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/images.antiquemapsandprints.com\/scansr1\/P-8-007083_provenance_portfolio.pdf\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eProvenance is supported by a certified letter and set out in the linked dossier\u003c\/a\u003e, with copies of the Navy records naming Good in command, his handwritten account and a crewman's eyewitness recollection. The overlay has been repaired, with some losses; the base map is not present.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Antiquemapsandprints.com","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54181506253147,"sku":"P-8-007083","price":8560.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0923\/9583\/1643\/files\/P-8-007083a.jpg?v=1790272637"},{"product_id":"d-day-top-secret-bigot-utah-beach-minesweeping-map-assembly-plan-us-navy-1944-p-8-007084","title":"D-Day Top Secret—BIGOT Utah Beach minesweeping map—Assembly Plan—Lt. Good—US Navy 1944","description":"\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e'BIGOT—TOP SECRET—NEPTUNE—Minesweeping Overlay (Prior to H-Hour) of Admiralty Chart 2613 with Admiralty Chart 2613 and Assembly and Staging Plan—Enclosure 2 to Appendix II to Annex Fox; Annex Easy'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis is an original BIGOT–Top Secret–Neptune minesweeping overlay for the D-Day approach to Utah Beach, issued before the invasion with Assault Force U's staging orders naming the ship of the officer who kept them. Drawn for Admiralty Chart 2613, it traces Channels 1 and 2, which minesweepers cleared ahead of the invasion convoys, buoy by buoy from their marker vessels to the assault area. BIGOT was the invasion's highest level of secrecy, reserved for those who needed to know where and when it would strike. The twelve-page Assembly and Staging Plan and Table, Serial 00010, also BIGOT, dated 15 May 1944 and amended by hand, choreographs how every ship and craft would load, assemble and sail. Among them is Lieutenant Carl M. Good Jr's subchaser, SC 1301, listed at Dartmouth; on D-Day she shepherded landing craft between the troopships and Utah Beach. The documents stayed in Good's family for over eighty years. \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/images.antiquemapsandprints.com\/scansr1\/P-8-007084_provenance_portfolio.pdf\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eProvenance is supported by a certified letter and set out in the linked dossier\u003c\/a\u003e, with copies of the Navy records naming Good in command, his handwritten account and a crewman's eyewitness recollection. The accompanying underlying 1924-edition Admiralty chart was acquired separately. The overlay is toned and folded, with edge losses.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Antiquemapsandprints.com","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54181506285915,"sku":"P-8-007084","price":6300.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0923\/9583\/1643\/files\/P-8-007084a.jpg?v=1790272639"},{"product_id":"d-day-top-secret-bigot-utah-beach-inner-screening-overlay-map-us-navy-1944-p-8-007085","title":"D-Day Top Secret—BIGOT Utah Beach Inner Screening overlay map—Lt. Good—US Navy 1944","description":"\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e'BIGOT—TOP SECRET—NEPTUNE—Inner Screening Overlay to Admiralty Chart 2073, wth Admiralty Chart 2073—Appendix I to Annex Charlie'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis is an original Top Secret–BIGOT–Neptune inner screening overlay for Utah Beach: the plan for guarding the invasion fleet at anchor off the beach. Issued to Assault Force U before D-Day and drawn to lie over Admiralty Chart 2073, it lays out anchorages U1 to U7 on a lettered and numbered grid, with the fire-support area, landing-craft ferry-control areas and the Gooseberry blockship breakwater, bounded by screening lines wittily named the Mason Line and the Dixie Line. BIGOT was the invasion's highest level of secrecy, reserved for those who needed to know where and when it would strike. The overlay was kept by Lieutenant Carl M. Good Jr, whose subchaser SC-1301 spent D-Day shepherding landing craft between the troopships and Utah Beach; his account ends with the ship ordered to join the area screen. It stayed in his family for over eighty years. \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/images.antiquemapsandprints.com\/scansr1\/P-8-007085_provenance_portfolio.pdf\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eProvenance is supported by a certified letter and set out in the linked dossier\u003c\/a\u003e, with copies of the Navy records naming Good in command, his handwritten account and a crewman's eyewitness recollection. The accompanying 1919-edition underlying Admiralty chart was acquired separately. The overlay is toned and folded, with ragged loss along its left edge.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Antiquemapsandprints.com","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54181506318683,"sku":"P-8-007085","price":4500.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0923\/9583\/1643\/files\/P-8-007085a.jpg?v=1790272638"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.antiquemapsandprints.com\/collections\/assault-force-u-operation-order-no-3-44.oembed","provider":"Antiquemapsandprints.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}