D-Day and Normandy Invasion Maps

The Normandy invasion was planned, fought and recorded through maps. This collection brings together maps of Operation Overl...

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The Normandy invasion was planned, fought and recorded through maps. This collection brings together maps of Operation Overlord and its naval phase, Operation Neptune, from pre-invasion intelligence and coastal reconnaissance to the assault on 6 June 1944 and the subsequent campaign across Normandy. It includes plans of Utah, Omaha, Gold, Juno and Sword beaches; German coastal defences and troop dispositions; Allied convoy routes, naval bombardment and air cover; airborne landings, marshalling areas and Mulberry harbours; and battlefield maps of Caen, Cherbourg, Saint-Lô and the Falaise pocket. Among the most evocative examples are restricted War Office and Admiralty sheets, BIGOT maps, maps carried or annotated in active service and later official histories reconstructing the operation. Together they reveal how cartography supported every stage of D-Day—from intelligence and planning to landing, supply, breakout and liberation.

The Normandy invasion was planned, fought and recorded through maps. This collection brings together maps of Operation Overlord and its naval phase, Operation Neptune, from pre-invasion intelligence and coastal reconnaissance to the assault on 6 June 1944 and the subsequent campaign across Normandy. It includes plans of Utah, Omaha, Gold, Juno and Sword beaches; German coastal defences and troop dispositions; Allied convoy routes, naval bombardment and air cover; airborne landings, marshalling areas and Mulberry harbours; and battlefield maps of Caen, Cherbourg, Saint-Lô and the Falaise pocket. Among the most evocative examples are restricted War Office and Admiralty sheets, BIGOT maps, maps carried or annotated in active service and later official histories reconstructing the operation. Together they reveal how cartography supported every stage of D-Day—from intelligence and planning to landing, supply, breakout and liberation.