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Radio newspaper with Bernardine Flynn brought to you by Chris Gold, a pure all vegetable shortly. And now here is Bernardine Flynn. Thank you, Ed Roberts, and hello everyone. Well, it's been almost 36 hours since we first heard the news of the invasion of Western Europe.

And though the news has had to be scarce for military reasons, it has been uniformly good. So now let's hear the latest information about what's going on. We switch you to the New York headquarters of CBS World News for the report of Alan Jackson, one of Columbia's news editors.

The news on the invasion is beginning to arrive in larger quantities today. For the past several hours, the teletypes in the CBS Newsroom have clanged out bulletin bells a number of times, and eyewitness broadcasts from abroad are becoming more numerous too.

Just about an hour ago, a light headquarters issued a special announcement on the invasion. reported that all of our beachheads have now been clear to the enemy. Presumably though, some of these are still under artillery fire. Also, headquarters reports that some of the beach positions have been enlarged and have joined up with those flanking them. And along

this same line is an unofficial report that some of our reinforced airborne troops, who landed in the interior, have been able to fight their way toward the coast and join forces with the beachheads. This, however, is not official. Another note from Allied headquarters, Finally fighting is taking place inland from the beaches today, and German counter-attacks

have been repulsed near the town of Khan. Earlier this morning, a headquarters officer said the reports coming in then were disappointing, but by midday he said they showed decided improvement. And now for our next spot of invasion news, suppose we switch to London for the report of CBS correspondent Richard C. Hottlet.