Archive D-Day Maps from the UK Hydrographic Office.

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Archive maps for the D-Day Landings now available from Salient Points.  Save £4 off RRP!!!

With the 60th anniversary of D-Day being commemorated this year, the crucial role of the UKHO (UK Hydrographic Office) prior to the dramatic events of June 1944 is being remembered with a folio of five replica D-Day landing maps.

His Majesty’s Forces required a variety of sea charts and coastal diagrams for D-Day and the Admiralty tasked one of its departments, the Hydrographic Office, with gathering the appropriate information, drawing the charts and maps, printing and then issuing them to the Fleet for operational use. 

Based at Cowes on the Isle of Wight, two hydrographic surveyors, Lieutenant Commander Berncastle and Lieutenant Glen, were issued with two 32-foot Landing Craft in which to operate. The low profile of these vessels made them difficult to detect by German radar and canoes were used when daring landings on the beaches were required.

A series of ‘Special Charts’, including these top secret maps, as well as charts of our minefields, wreck charts and enemy minefields were drawn by the cartographers at the Hydrographic Office to ensure that the British and Allied warships and merchant ships could navigate safely.

Accurate and up-to-date intelligence was essential to the success of the planned assault on the Normandy beaches, and the information shown on these maps had to be gathered without a hint of interest in the area being disclosed. Hydrographic surveyors were sent by the Admiralty to make rapid reconnaissance surveys of the coast under the cover of darkness, though at the time they were kept blissfully unaware of the significance of their work.

You can now purchase facsimilie reproduction maps of the D-Day Landing Beaches from Salient Points.

RRP £18.99 - Special Price to Salient Points visitors, only £14.99 + P&P - Save Over 20%

If you are interested in purchasing a complete set of this unique maps please email me to place your order.  I will then contact you regarding payment and postage costs. 

Email: ryan@salientpoints.com

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