D-Day attributables

[robs]

Gold Beach planning chart

I've added this to my collection. A 184cm x 76.5cm British D-day Gold Beach Briefing or Planning Chart. It appears to be hand made by an sign writer so it has to be one of a kind. It is noted with H Hour. The actual hour and minutes, especially the exact time of the first wave assault of the landings on D Day is not shown.

Photographed with a Rupert dummy and a Beach Helmet.

[helmhunter]

Nice planning chart Robs, the beach Group MKII seems very cool too

Phil.

[HILL192]

Hi all, my D Day helmet

[robs]

A couple more items;

"Detachment duty card" for LCT352 "H + 240" Queen White sector of Sword Beach. Issued to SGMN Spencer.

A Top Secret marked map for Southampton Center Zone "Area C Operation Overlord".

[robs]

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[helmhunter]

Hi HILL192,

Just a stunning M1

Phil.

[robs]

BTT for 6th June anniversary. Add more bits folks.

[Frank Nick]

Great thread with great collection pieces!!

Frank

[InfanterieSammler]

Here is a Silver Star Citation for Corporal Charles Woods for his actions with the 1st Infantry Division on Omaha Beach on 6 June 1944. This citation is part of a larger group to Corporal Woods, which also includes a Bronze Star Citation for El Guettar, Tunisia in 1943 and a Bronze Star with Oak Leaf Cluster for actions in Sicily in 1943.

Regards,
John

[rott51]

Anything new? Please feel free to add your D-Day attributables.

[Gary B]

One of my 3 D-Day Silver Stars....

Silver Star for SGT R--eed, Jr 5th Ranger Bn for actions on 6 Jun 44

Gary B

[Ed Hicks]

Lt. H. L. Oakes, Jr. USNR 11th Amphibious Force D-Day Colt 1911 Pistol carried throughout WWII including his service as a commander with the 11th Amphibious Force at Normandy.
The 1944 photo shows his son wearing his Colt Model 1911 pistol and belt set and his Normandy M1 Helmet when Lt. Oakes was home on leave following the Normandy invasion. An extraordinary well documented D-Day firearm with provenance from the family that includes a copy of Lt. Oakes' official authorization letter allowing him to retain this pistol. Oakes continued his naval service as a ship's captain in the Pacific after serving in the European North Africa, Italian and Normandy campaigns.

[Ed Hicks]

S/Sgt Tommy B. Gore BIGOT Top Secret security card for the 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment Normandy S2 operations staff planning...The card is signed by Col. Benjamin H. Vandervoort 505th CO and countersigned by another officer...It's difficult to see, but there are printed words on the card...S/Sgt Gore's operational maps he used at Normandy include a Normandy map with units marked, two La Haye Du Puits maps and his E & E silk map from his Holland jump...S/Sgt Gore made 4 combat jumps with the 505th in WWII.

The list of personnel cleared to know details of Overlord was known as the BIGOT list, and the people on it were known as "Bigots". The details of the invasion plan were so secret, adherence to the list was rigidly enforced. U.S. military advisor George Elsey tells a story in his memoirs about how a junior officer turned away King George VI from the intelligence centre on the USS Ancon, because, as he explained to a superior officer "...nobody told me he was a Bigot."[7][3] http://en.wikipedia....wiki/BIGOT_list

[tgn]

Marion Grodowski, Fox Co., 506th PIR, 101st AB. He was born in Poland, grew up in Chicago, and volunteered for airborne training. He was a veteran of D-Day, Carentan, Operation Market Garden, Bastogne and ended the war at Berchtesgaden, where he was the last person to speak with Luftwaffe General Kastner Kirdorf before he committed suicide. He saw the body and picked up his P08 off the floor as a souvenir, which he kept until he died.

[TK GUY]

Thank You

Thank you gentlemen for posting such outstanding D-Day artifacts on this the 74th anniversary. Amazing pieces of history.

Paul