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CBS World News Bob Tropp speaking, and again we bring you the available report, all of them from German sources, on what the Berlin radio calls the invasion. There is still no Allied confirmation from any sort.

Correspondents who rushed to the War Department in Washington soon after the first German broadcast was heard were told that our War Department had no information on the German report. There has been no announcement of any sort from Allied headquarters in London.

The first use of the German announcement reached this country at 1237 AM Eastern wartime. The Associated Press recorded this broadcast and immediately pointed out that it could be one which Allied leaders have warned us to expect from the Germans.

Shortly after 1 AM Eastern wartime, the Berlin Radio opened its news program with a so-called invasion announcement. Columbia's shortwave listening station here in New York, heard the Berlin radio say, and I quote, here is a special bulletin.

Early this morning, the long-awaited British and American invasion began when paratroops landed in the area of the Som estuary. The harbor of Laav is being fiercely bombarded at the present moment. Naval forces of the German Navy are off the coast, fighting with enemy landing vessels.

We just brought you a special bulletin. end of the quotation. That is the invasion announcement as heard from the Berlin radio by Columbia shortwave listening station. Now here's what Transocean, one of the German news agency, says, and I quote, early Tuesday morning landing craft and light warships were observed in the area between the

mouth of the Somme and the eastern coast of Normandy. At the same time, paratroops were dropped from numerous aircraft on the northern tip of the Norman Day Peninsula. It is believed that these paratroops have been given the task of capturing airfields in order to facilitate the landing of further troops. The harbor of