06 CRISCONEWSD-Day

Christo's radio newspaper with Bernardine Flynn brought to you by the makers of Christo. And now here's Bernardine Flynn. Thank you, Ed, and hello, everyone. This is the day for which we've all been waiting. The day, invasion of Western Europe, to millions of people in the occupied countries, this is the beginning of their liberation after many long years of domination by Hitler and the

Axis. Of course, we all want to hear the latest details, and in order that we might bring you As much invasion news as possible, Crisco is dropping its usual commercial time. Now let's switch to the New York headquarters of CBS World News for a report by Alan Jackson, one of Columbia's news editors.

Briefly, the situation at the moment is this. We have landed and from all indications have things well in hand. Most of the details as to exactly what's going on come from the Germans, because naturally, our commanders are going to use utmost caution in releasing information which the enemy might not have.

However, Admiral Ernest King, the commander of the United States Fleet, said this morning in Washington after a conference with President Roosevelt, that, from his viewpoint, the invasion of Europe is doing all right so far.

The grand assault on the continent, as a matter of fact, was scheduled for yesterday, but it was postponed until today because of bad weather. When it did get underway early this morning, shortly after midnight, it found the highly wanted German defenses much less formidable in every department than had been feared.

For instance, airborne troops who led the assault before daylight on a history-making scale suffered extremely small losses in the air, even though the great plane fleets extended across 200 miles of sky and used navigation lights to keep formation.