Soldiers, sailors and airmen of the Allied Expeditionary Force, you are about to embark upon

the great crusade toward which we have striven these many months.

The eyes of the world are upon you, the hopes and prayers of liberty-loving people everywhere

march with you.

It was a dark moon on the 6th of June and in the Kenworth Hall of Moves.

The day is here, the invasion of Western Europe has begun.

Let me read you several of the latest bulletins.

One says that a report, unconfirmed by Allied sources, of course, says that heavy fighting

is taking place between the Germans and invasion forces on the Normandy Peninsula, about 31

miles southwest of LaHapra.

Another bulletin, also from Berlin radio and unconfirmed, says the British-American landing

operations against the Western coast of Europe, from the sea and from the air, are stretching

over the entire area.

You were back off them logs, good hint for a five-mile or so tin-roucher them logs

getting intense up here.

Under the command of General Eisenhower, Allied naval forces, reported by strong air forces,

began landing Allied armies this morning, another coast of France.