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long-awaited invasion was underway. It was not until 730 when the eight o'clock starters began to hurry along that an undercurrent of excitement was evident. By that time, people on the streets were talking animatedly. The atmosphere changed. Under its bright June sun, Washington in general, at last became aware that the big day had arrived.

I return you now to New York. You have just heard Albert Leach reporting from CBS Washington. For further news on the European invasion, keep tuned to your Columbia station. Presented by the makers of La France and Sattina will not be heard today.

Lindsay Howe, with news and an analysis of the things that have just recently come in to CBS World News headquarters here in New York.

Allied invasion armies landed in northwestern France today drove at least nine and a half miles into the Nazi West Wall to the town of Corinth at C.A.E.N., and after 12 hours of fighting held beachheads on a broad front along the coast of Normandy.

This dispatch comes from Supreme Allied headquarters in London. Prime Minister Winston Churchill told Commons late today that the invasion is proceeding in a thoroughly satisfactory manner. And simultaneously, a Supreme Headquarters announcement, a headquarters spokesman, rather, said the American and Allied armies have gotten over the first five or six hurdles in the greatest amphibious assault of all time.

The German Transulsion News Agency, however, broadcast a statement by a Nazi military spokesman which said that except for the calm beachhead, all the invasion troops had been thrown back toward the sea. The spokesman, this is a German, claimed that the Allied beachhead is only nine to twelve miles wide and about a mile deep, whereas the Allied invasion headquarters speak of its