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Columbia's News Headquarters in New York, Bob Tropp speaking. Let's continue now Columbia's invasion coverage by going over some of the details of the invasion, which we know and bringing ourselves up to date. Here's a summary up to this point.

The indications are, in the early hours of the second day of our invasion of Western Europe, that all is going well. We're continuing to push inland to Normandy along a front which has been estimated at 60 miles, although the estimate, of course, is not official.

As yet there are no signs of any immediate German counterattack, and our ground casualties have been light, much lighter than had been anticipated. Considering the scope of the operations, naval losses have also been extremely light.

The first German prisoners have been brought back to Great Britain on mind-sweepers, along with the first Allied casualties. The waters of the English Channel are still kicking up, but despite the rather unfavorable weather, we're succeeding in pouring a steady stream of men and supplies into the beachhead zone somewhere between Sherburg and Laav. The Germans say that fighting in this area is

now in full swing, and the Germans admit that we've managed to widen the beachhead. The Germans are also telling of Allied landings on two of the British Channel Islands near the coast of France, and they're predicting more landings along that stretch of land running from Dunkirk to Calais. The very latest German story is this, from the German Transocean Agency, which

says that further Allied landings, under cover of a heavy naval bombardment, are now being carried out in the area of the Orne estuary, which is on the north bank shore of the Norman Peninsula, southwest of La Blauve, and northeast of the town of Ka. That story is a German story put out by the German Transocean Agency. Columbia's shortwave listening station here in New York