Exceptional acquisition of registers from 1944 with photos of Utah and Omaha
On November 2, 2021, the Normandy Victory Museum acquired a set of documents of exceptional historical interest: three books of coastal photographs of the Utah and Omaha sectors, from Grandcamp-Maisy. Let’s discover them together.
These cardboard and green-lined registers are produced by the GSGS, Geographical Section, General Staff. The brochures were prepared by the ISTD (Inter Services Topographical Department) in February 1944, based on photographic surveys carried out on the coastlines in Normandy, between the mouth of the Seine and Cap de la Hague.
Note: all the photos taken have been collected in 16 different books. The Normandy Victory Museum owns three of them.
- The “Booklet M”, going from Madeleine beach, on Sainte-Marie-du-Mont, to the Hameau du Nord in Gougins.
- The “Booklet N” continues north, to Morsalines.
- Finally, the third photo register has the code “F” and goes from Port-en-Bessin to Saint-Laurent-sur-mer.
These rare documents therefore allow us to discover what knowledge the Allies had on the two key sectors of June 6, 1944, Utah Beach and Omaha Beach. They are visible at the Normandy Victory Museum in Carentan.
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