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It's high noon in New York and time for Kate Smith, who will be brought to you every Tuesday and Thursday during the summer by the makers of sure gel, America's fast-selling, pouted, pectin product. Here she is, Kate Smith.

Hello, everybody. Today is a day that no living American can ever forget, invasion day, forged into our consciousness in letters of fire. It marks the pinnacle of weeks and months and years of anguish, preparation, the consolidating of our mighty forces.

This is the hour of the death blow to those our enemies who have spread evil, sorrow, and suffering like a black shadow across the face of this earth. This is the day of reckoning when America and her allies go forward to the terrible task of crushing completely and forever the enemies who for four and one half years have ravaged

one helpless nation after another. This is the day that must mark the beginning of the downfall of Nazi Germany, and the downfall of all those who have sanctioned and aided the brief reign of terror, the cruelty, insanity, and arrogance of Hitlerism.

Let the blow be swift and sure. Let us be strong and untwerving in purpose, strong in the assurance that we go forward in a cause which is right in the liberation of the oppressed and the restoration of human decency and dignity from the forces of evil. This is invasion day, liberation day. Here

at home we sit beside our radios eagerly hanging on each word of news that flashes across an ocean around the world. We're filled with a conflict of many emotions, fear, excitement, and hope. But these emotions will not help those whom we most desire to help. They will not carry our brave fighting forces forward unless we harness those thoughts and guide them