Overlord Heritage Project

Overlord Heritage Project

The Overlord Heritage Project is dedicated to telling the untold story and identifying the top-secret locations of Operation Overlord during the Second World War.

What is The Overlord Heritage Project?

Our dedicated team, comprising writers and historians from the United Kingdom, the United States, the Netherlands, France and Belgium are researching and marking the 1,743 allied camp locations and re-discovering the abandoned engineering built for the D-Day invasion in 1944.


Many of these sites are now overgrown and forgotten – even omitted from official maps. This unique historical project is the most ambitious of its kind ever undertaken.


The United Kingdom was home-from-home for over 3 million allied men and women during WWII, many of whom never made it back to their own homes and families so far away.


The Overlord Heritage Project is dedicated to augmenting our War Memorials with the names of those who made the ultimate sacrifice. We believe their names should be commemorated in the British towns and villages where they trained and prepared for the liberation of Europe and the rescue of civilisation. 


Shown here is an example of the commemorative plaque for the 15th Tank Battalion, 6th Armored Division. The plaques are made of architectural enamel that will never fade or oxidise. It will enable visitors, pilgrims and the families of these men and women to find out more about the allied units that occupied these sites.

Overlord Heritage

There is ample space on our village war memorials to add the names of our  brothers-in-arms who died in the same great struggle to liberate Europe.

Sir Percy Hobart

There is no commemorative plaque anywhere in the United Kingdom to the remarkable Major General Sir Percy Cleghorn Stanley Hobart KBE, CB, DSO MC, LOM (U.S.A). Other countries have recognised his genius and vision.


Sir Percy Hobart remains a prophet, publicly unacknowledged in his own land. 


This is the special plaque which we plan to install at the property where he once lived in Chipping Campden, Gloucestershire during the time of his enforced exile.

Lest We Forget

Photo By: John Doe
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Lest We Forget

Chipping Norton and Over Norton in Oxfordshire, England was home to the following American units prior to D-Day in 1944. 


Those killed in action during the Liberation of Europe whose names we have found so far, are indicated in parenthesis.


  • 38th Engineer General Service Regiment (4 KIA)
  • 68th Tank Battalion (84 KIA)
  • 157th Engineer Combat Battalion (8 KIA)
  • 163rd Engineer Combat Battalion (3 KIA)
  • 333rd Field Artillery Battalion (11 KIA)
  • 969th Field Artillery Battalion (1 KIA)
  • 46th Armored Signal Company (0 KIA)


Could we find space at our War Memorials to honour the service and sacrifice of 111 allied soldiers – our brothers in arms?

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