OPERATION OVERLORD: WESTERN BASE SECTION PLAN.

OPERATION OVERLORD: WESTERN BASE SECTION PLAN.
Operation Overlord Plan "C" XXIX District - WBS. United States Army: dated 8 March 1944.
Official "Overlord" plan for HQ Western Base section. SOS Etousa Section. United States Army. Marked "SECRET-SECURITY." Folio. 330 x 210 mm. The volume separated into 22 tabbed sections, covering the general plan, command Channels, marshaling camps, ports, movement instructions, ordinances, etc., with sections on Chemical Warfare Service, medical, finance and chaplain, and numerous plans. Original fawn wrappers and clip at upper margin; together with an archive of maps and papers relating to the arrival of US troop ships into the ports of South Wales and their movement of troops to the southern coast of England; together with "Overlord Shipping Daily Position Report 26th September 1944, and two early military photographs, and two family and domestic photograph albums, 1939-1948.
Provenance: Lt. Colonel Sir Henry Brackenbury.

A fine 'back-room" archive showing the complexities of organizing Operation Overlord, just in providing the logistics of getting the US troops into the UK via Wales, distributing the forces along the South Coast of England, and then shipping them into the Normandy beach-head.