Printed from Woolley & Wallis

Description

D-Day/Operation Neptune interest: two hand drawn charts: the first covering the English Channel between the Straights of Dover and Dartmouth/Les Sept Iles (including the area of the invasion beaches) showing radar stations on both sides and marked in red and green ink with their zones of coverage, marked "TRACING FROM CHARTS F.0346, F.0347, F.0348 / D.C.P. WARD W.R.N.S. PORTSMOUTH JUNE 1944", 107 x 97 cm; the second covering The Solent and Southampton Water and marked with the positions of landing craft and other vessels, entitled inter alia "KEY DIAGRAM (TRACING FROM CHART No 2045)" and "State at 1400 D - 1", partial label verso ("Commander Branson" ?) 73 x 57 cm. [2]