06 Cross Country Reaction To D-Day

Having cancelled all regularly scheduled programs, NBC invites you to listen tonight at 9.30 p.m. Eastern War time, that's a half an hour from now over most of these stations, to Fibba McGee and Molly in a special Invasion Day program.

Tune in then and all evening long to NBC for complete Invasion news coverage. Well, D-Day is here. The culmination of two years of military planning and home front production was reached this morning when the first G.I. Joe and his United Nations allies took their step onto the sandy beaches of Francis Normandy coast. The nation wakened this morning to a

slow consciousness that this was it, and then went to pray and to work. The prayer that the liberation of tortured Europe would be speedy and that our country's sons might be spared as much as possible. It was a day of work and a prayer and hope.

The National Broadcasting Company canceled all its scheduled programs so that news of the invasion could be flashed and coast to coast without a second delay. All day long people stayed by their radios and read their newspapers. But it is not really until tonight that America's thoughts on D-Day are crystallized. So now NBC will switch to its affiliated stations

from Hartford, Connecticut to Oklahoma City so that this United Nation of the United Nations may see how common is our purpose and how strong is our unity. In this special half hour course, Country Swing of America, we will also include the latest bulletins from the invasion front that they developed.

And here is one which has just been handed to me. From New York, the Braseville radio, as heard by NBC monitors, claims that General Dwight D. Eisenhower has set up his headquarters in northern France.

in fighting a lies could bring it. Now for the reaction from the hot first of New England's vast and w-section to D-Day. Take you now to WTIC Hotford. What is the reaction of Connecticut to the invasion?

Here at a WTIC microphone to give the answer is Eugenie Wilson, Vice Chairman of the United Aircraft Corporation, Chairman of the Connecticut War Finance Committee, and Chairman of the General Nautical Chamber of Commerce of America.

Mr. Wilson. In Hartford and Connecticut, the reaction was immediate and vigorous. We did not wait for June 12. In Connecticut, we launched the Fifth War Loan with the invasion. We moved with the troops of General Eisenhower.