D-Day Top Secret—BIGOT Utah Beach gunfire support map & Intelligence Plan—Lt. Good—US Navy 1944

Commander Task Force 125 (Assault Force U), under Commander Task Force 122, Western Naval Task Force, United States Navy; Lieutenant Carl M. Good Jr, provenance

BIGOT–TOP SECRET. Appendix 1 to Annex Dog (Gunfire Support Plan), Assault Force U / CTF 125 Operation Order No. 3-44: 'Overlay to 1/50000 map/chart furnished (all targets will be plotted accurately by coordinates on map/chart). Positions shown are those to be occupied prior to H-40.' The overlay does not name its parent order on its face; its annex numbering, content and provenance place it with Force U's Operation Order No. 3-44. [England]: Assault Force U, Western Naval Task Force, United States Navy, 1944. The parent operation order is dated 15 May 1944; a separate printing date for the overlay has not been established. Original contents: one 1:50,000 gunfire-support overlay, 38 × 29 inches (96.5 × 73.7 cm); and Annex Able, Intelligence Plan, serial 00010, dated 15 May 1944, comprising numbered sheets 1–19 of 20. Sheet 20 is absent. The overlay plots planned bombardment stations, swept channels and a transport area. A printed note states that the fire-support areas and stations were drawn to conform to the minesweeping plan. Two ship names beside Nevada, Tyler and Hotham, are struck through, apparently in pencil. The Intelligence Plan sheets are headed TOP SECRET–BIGOT–NEPTUNE. An overlay is a separate operational layer intended to be read over a base map; the underlying 1:50,000 map or chart is not present. Provenance: Lieutenant Carl M. Good Jr, USNR, commanding officer of USS SC-1301; by descent to his son and then to his grandson, who consigned the material to Centurion Auctions, Tallahassee, Florida, sale of 16 August 2026, lots 149252 and 149254, as stated in Centurion's signed Letters of Provenance of 26 August 2026 (inventory 92245 and 92247), in which the firm's owner, Malcolm Mason, records meeting the consignor in person. Muster forwarding sheets dated 31 March and 30 June 1944 identify Good as commanding officer on dates bracketing D-Day; SC-1301's sailing list of 30 September 1944 and the quarterly-roll forwarding sheet of 31 December 1944 carry his command to the end of 1944, and the 1953 Register of Commissioned and Warrant Officers of the United States Naval Reserve confirms his file number, 102979, and his later rank of lieutenant commander. Gunner's Mate Third Class Tolley Fletcher, who is indexed on SC-1301's 1944 muster rolls, recalled in Military Times (5 June 2019) that the ship escorted landing craft into Utah Beach on D-Day. An unsigned six-page manuscript account of SC-1301's operations from 1 June to 31 August 1944, written in the first person by the ship's commanding officer, records the crossing from Dartmouth with an LCM flotilla in a Force U convoy, landing-craft control from the transport area on 6–8 June, shuttle-control duty off Omaha Beach, and orders of 29 August to join the area screen; it names no beach for D-Day itself. Association of the originals: the overlay came from Centurion lot 149252 (asset/title 4536); the Intelligence Plan came from lot 149254 (asset 4537), within the same family consignment. They have been paired by us for this sale. Annex Able supplies related beach intelligence, not the overlay's own Annex Dog explanatory text. This is a selected group of components, not a complete operation order or an intact wartime file. The Assembly and Staging originals and the other two overlays are offered separately and are not included. Modern supporting material: a provenance portfolio (PDF, September 2026) reproducing the two Centurion Letters of Provenance, whose signed certified originals are embedded in the PDF, the two US Navy muster forwarding sheets, an extract from the 1953 Naval Reserve Register, a summary of Tolley Fletcher's eyewitness recollection, the six-page operational account with a typed transcription, a portrait of Good as an ensign, overview images of this lot's typed papers and extracts from the Assembly and Staging Table. No original manuscript journal or original wartime photographic prints are present.

Good; suitable for framing. The overlay map is brittle and has been stablised verso with archival tape. A split has been neatly rejoined. Toning, fold wear, small gaps, holes and edge losses remain. Intelligence sheets are toned, punched and edge-worn. Size stated is for the overlay map. Please check the scan for any blemishes prior to making your purchase. Please contact us if you would like to arrange to view this map. There is nothing printed on the reverse side of the map, which is plain. The Intelligence Plan is printed on both sides of each sheet

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