D-Day Top Secret—BIGOT Utah Beach minesweeping map—Assembly Plan—Lt. Good—US Navy 1944

Overlay map and Assembly and staging plan published 15th May 1944. Admiralty chart corrections to 1936

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–NEPTUNE (marking as printed on the overlay; the staging papers are headed TOP SECRET–BIGOT–NEPTUNE). Minesweeping Overlay (Prior to H-Hour), Enclosure 2 to Appendix II to Annex Fox, Assault Force U / CTF 125 Operation Order No. 3-44; scale 1:147,700, designed for Admiralty Chart 2613. [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 Good-family contents: one minesweeping overlay, 22 × 16 inches (55.9 × 40.6 cm); and the original Annex Easy, Assembly and Staging Plan (one page), with Appendix One, Assembly and Staging Table (eleven pages), serial 00010, dated 15 May 1944: twelve pages in total. These papers explain Force U's assembly and convoy arrangements; paragraph 1(f) refers to the Sailing Directives, Appendix II to Annex F. They are associated planning papers, not a complete Annex Fox. Page 2 of the Assembly and Staging Table lists subchaser SC 1301 at Dartmouth in convoy U-2A(1), and page 9 assigns fifty LCM(3) landing craft to Dartmouth in the same convoy; Good's account records sailing from Dartmouth on 3 June 1944 in convoy U2B leading an LCM flotilla. The papers are amended in manuscript throughout. The overlay's only manuscript is the pencilled labels 'Channel 1' and 'Channel 2'. Separately acquired period chart: Admiralty Chart 2613, France – North Coast, Sheet XI, Cape Levi to Fécamp, from the French Government Charts 1836–1924, included to provide the coastline and soundings beneath the operational overlay. London: Admiralty, 29 October 1894 (Captain W. J. L. Wharton, Hydrographer); New Editions August 1898, 11 October 1911, 11 April 1919, 3 October 1919 and 22 December 1924; small corrections 1925–1926; print code Ze. 1925; engraved by Edward Weller; sold by J. D. Potter, 145 Minories. Two purple 'INCREASE 50%' price stamps. The chart was acquired separately, was not Good's, and remains a separate physical object. The dimensions above refer to the overlay, not the chart. 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. This supports the personal and operational association; it does not independently prove use of this particular sheet on 6 June 1944 or authorship of its annotations. Association of the originals: the overlay came from Centurion lot 149254 (asset/title 4537); the Assembly papers came from lot 149252 (asset 4536), within the same family consignment. This retail grouping was assembled by us; it is not an intact wartime set or a complete operation order. No original Intelligence Plan or other overlay is included. Modern supporting material: a provenance portfolio (PDF, September 2026) reproducing the two Centurion Letters of Provenance, whose signed 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. The original manuscript journal and original wartime photographic prints are not present.

Good; suitable for framing. Overlay toned and folded, with corner and edge losses. Assembly papers show toning, punching, creases, stains and edge wear. Light soiling to separately acquired Admiralty chart. Manuscript additions to both overlay and Assembly plan. 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 Assembly and Staging Plan is printed on both sides of each sheet

Packing

Items smaller than A4 size are usually packed in a stiffened, board-backed envelope. Larger items are rolled and packed in postal tubes. Large items which are too stiff to be rolled in wide-diameter tubes are mailed in all-board envelopes. In the unlikely event of damage in transit, please send the affected item or items back to us and we will provide a replacement or refund.

Delivery

Economy, tracked and express shipping options are available to all destinations worldwide. Over half our orders are sent to customers outside the United Kingdom and we have supplied over 30,000 buyers in over 70 different countries. We ship orders virtually every business day to customers in North America and Europe. The cost of delivery depends on the size of the largest item in your order, where you are located, and the delivery method that you choose at checkout. For orders received before 2pm, we can arrange delivery next day in the UK, within 2 business days to continental Europe and North America, and within 4 days to most other countries worldwide (excludes PO Box or APO/FPO (Military) addresses).

Returns

We accept returns for any reason if sent back to us within 14 days of receipt of your order. If any of your items are not as described, we will provide a full refund including reasonable return postage costs upon safe return to us. If you have changed your mind, you are responsible for the cost of returning the item to us. We describe the size, age and condition of all our products as fully and accurately as possible. Most of the items which we sell are in very good condition. However, the condition of antique and vintage prints and maps can vary. All of our product listings including a statement which classifies the condition as being either “Good”, “Fair”, or (rarely) “Poor” and which describes any material flaws, blemishes, imperfections or other significant features such as folds. Please read the description carefully before purchase.