D-Day Top Secret—BIGOT Utah Beach Inner Screening overlay map—Lt. Good—US Navy 1944

Overlay map published 15th May 1944. Admiralty chart corrections to 1921

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

TOP SECRET–BIGOT–NEPTUNE (printed as 'Top-Secret Bigot-Neptune'). Inner Screening Overlay, Appendix I to Annex Charlie, Assault Force U / CTF 125 Operation Order No. 3-44, designed for Admiralty Chart 2073. [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 Inner Screening Overlay, showing Force U's anchorages U1–U7, fire-support area No. 1, the 'XA' and 'XB' ferry-control areas, the 'C' Gooseberry breakwater and the screening lines named the Mason Line and the Dixie Line. No original operational paper section accompanies this offer: neither the Intelligence Plan nor the Assembly and Staging papers is included in the original. Separately acquired period chart: Admiralty Chart 2073, France – North Coast, Cape Barfleur to Courseulles, compiled from the French Government Charts 1836–1910, with an inset of Port Barfleur from French Government Charts to 1908, included to make the overlay's maritime geography intelligible. London: Admiralty, 10 December 1894 (Captain W. J. L. Wharton, Hydrographer); New Editions 20 September 1911, 16 October 1912 and 11 April 1919; small corrections 1919–1921, the last dated 24 August 1921; engraved by Davies & Company; sold by J. D. Potter, 145 Minories. Purple 'INCREASE 50%' price stamp. This pre-Second World War chart was acquired separately, was not Good's, and remains a separate physical object. Its first-publication and edition dates must not be confused with the date of the 1944 overlay. 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 and scope: the overlay came from Centurion lot 149254 (asset/title 4537) and has been separated from the former two-overlay retail grouping. The chart pairing was assembled by us; it is not an intact wartime pair. The other overlays and original paper sections are offered separately and are not included. Modern supporting material: a provenance portfolio (PDF, September 2026) reproducing Centurion's Letter of Provenance for lot 149254, whose signed original is 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 and an extract from the Assembly and Staging Table, whose original is offered separately. No original manuscript journal or original wartime photographic prints are included.

Good; suitable for framing. Overlay toned and folded, with marginal chips and tears and appreciable ragged loss along the left edge. Light soiling to separately acquired Admiralty chart. 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

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