Nbc News Report From London

Keep tuned to your NBC station for the latest news. All programs will be interrupted instantly for the latest and most up-to-the-minute news. Stay tuned to NBC. Italian port of Genoa has been attacked in heavy strength. And now a report from the German radio. Two more Allied airborne divisions and many hundreds of gliders have landed north of Bayou today.

This is the first report of a daylight operation on such a large scale. And now we take you to London for a report from NBC's Merrell Mueller. Go ahead, London. This is Merrell Mueller reporting from the Allied Advanced Command Post of the Invasion Forces.

I have just finished a tour of several hospital wards of some of our American wounded evacuated from the beachhead in France on B-Day. These men, all that I talked to, were both army and navy personnel in the first wave of our forces to strike the beaches.

Generalized an hour early in the day in his special message spoke of the magnificence of the troops doing the fat fighting in France. The best confirmation at hand for the moment is the spirit of the wounded.

One boy echoed it perfectly. He was sitting up in bed talking to us, although sitting up was somewhat of a strain for him. Both his legs and his back were full of shrapnel. A husky Pennsylvania, he grinned at us sheepishly and said, and I quote his exact words, me?

I feel like going back. All of us want to get back there as soon as possible. We were visiting one of the huge American station hospitals, readied in England for the handling of casualties. Located in a former girl's school, it had prepared wards of 535 beds for second front wounded.