Military Gallery
D-Day Invasion Map - Poster - 27 ½“ x 19 ¾“
Product Info:
This WW2, D-Day Invasion Map poster is 27 ½ “ wide x 19 ¾ “ high (69.75cm x 50cm) and printed on FSC Mix Essential Silk 300gsm paper.
Historical Context:
Shortly after midnight in the early hours of D-Day, 6 June 1944, three Allied airborne divisions began landing in Normandy. Their task was to secure the flanks for the mighty American, British and Canadian armies to storm ashore on five beaches along a 50-mile stretch of heavily fortified enemy shoreline.
Codenamed Operation Overlord, the invasion was the largest, most complex and difficult amphibious landing ever undertaken which, by the following spring, would lead to the ultimate defeat of Germany and the end of the war in western Europe.
This superb map depicts details of the first day of this heroic operation. It illustrates the Allied armies involved and the beaches on which they landed; what their first day objectives were, and how close or far they came to achieving their goals.
Shipping & Delivery
All our posters are rolled using acid-free tissue paper and then carefully placed into a packing tube.
Our delivery parameters are specified by the Qty of posters ordered, which corresponds to the size of packing tube required. We offer a 14-day Returns window providing the Terms and Conditions are met.
About the artist
Military Gallery
Simon Smith was born in 1960 into a military family and quickly developed an interest in history and the armed forces. Always a talented artist, he studied Fine Art and Illustration at Art School and, graduating with a First-class degree, worked as a highly successful commercial illustrator. Equally at home painting in traditional oils and using the technologies of digital creation, his pieces are often created using a combination of both processes.
Simon has won numerous awards including the Fine Art Trade Guild’s ‘Nockold’s Trophy’, the Cross and Cockade WW1 ‘Aviation Art Award’, and Flypast magazine’s award for ‘Excellence in Aviation Art’.
