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CBS World News 9am Eastern wartime Douglas Edwards reporting. Here are the last minute details of the Allied invasion of Northern France. Allied air reconnaissance flyers have returned from the scene of the battle which began along the Northern French coastline early this morning to report that several beakheads have now been established.

Allied forces are splicing their way inland from these beakheads according to the reconnaissance photos. At the same time, Allied parachute troops dropped behind the enemy lines last night, or disrupting enemy defense systems and waiting to join forces with the troops pouring ashore on the beaches.

Prime Minister Churchill told Commons that more than 4,000 ships, together with many thousand smaller crafts, are transporting the invasion force across the channel. Churchill declared that the invasion is proceeding, and we quote, according to a plan, and for her plan.

That Supreme Headquarters of the Allied Expeditionary Force is reported that German destroyers and e-boats are rushing into the operational area off the northern coast of France, and no data being dealt with by the Allies. Incidentally, the initial to these headquarters are F-H-A-E-F, and you're going to get mighty familiar with them.

An Allied military commentator at F-H-A-E-F declared this morning that HR for the invasion range from 6 to 8 AM European times. Another report from that same source reveals that American battleship saw supporting the Allied landing with United States Coast Guard units also participating in the operations.

In a blasting format to the invasion, the British Bomber Command sent more than 1,300 of its heaviest bombers roaring across the channel last night and this morning for a saturation attack on the invasion area.

And now here are some last-minute bulletins, a live troop that landed on a channel island of Guernsey and Jersey, according to a German broadcast. The same enemy source says a live tank that landed midway between Sherburg and Lahauver, but that the greatest concentrations of landing craft have been observed off the two ports