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as soon as received. As the CBS World News headquarters in New York. At the moment we are presenting a musical program,

but CBS World News, which is bringing you the latest information from the French Invasion beaches, will interrupt this program immediately to broadcast any news or special programs from abroad. We now rejoin the special musical program.

All Network broadcasts, CBS World News, take you now to London. And at the bay of the mouth of the Sane River,

and in the vicinity of Har Fleur, near the tip of the Côtentine Peninsula. and Team Peninsula. The Germans claim six divisions of parachute and airborne troops were landed at various inland points along this 100-mile stretch of coastline.

Enemy dispatches make the usual propaganda claim that some of these elements were wiped out, but they admit heavy fighting by the airborne units is still in progress in some areas. A late German broadcast admits further that reinforcements are still pouring in.

In these successes, which were launched this morning with generalizing Howard's ringing slogan, Nothing Less Than Full Victory, is a story of massive sea and air operations. A fleet of 11,000 planes screened the naval armada of 4,000 ships and several thousand smaller craft.

In eight hours for midnight onward, 10,000 tons of bombs rocked the French coast. Shells from 640 naval rifles fired at point-blank range, destroyed enemy forts and gun positions. resistance was fierce, but nowhere did it reach the proportions which had been expected.

In the first few hours, only fifty German fighter planes opposed an allied tactical air force of twenty-five hundred planes. Enemy naval resistance was sporadic, and appeared concentrated near Lahav and Sherboard. Most of the German coast artillery had been in Winston Churchill's words, quelled, before the landing barges hit the beach.