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This is the BBC Home Service. Here is a special bulletin read by John Snake.

D-Day has come. Early this morning, the Allies began the assault on the northwestern face of Hitler's European fortress.

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

began landing Allied armies this morning on the northern coast of France.

On the morning of the 6th of June 1944, families across Britain sat in their living rooms around the wireless,

listening to this announcement from the BBC.

Johnless embedded on the front lines, given hints of power troopers landing in France through the early morning.

But any doubts about the great Allied invasion dissipated with that 932 AM broadcast from John Snake.

It was probably the most significant broadcast of the Second World War,

because it marked whether it was realised at the time or not, the turning point, the beginning of the end.

D-Day was the first day of the Normandy invasion by British Canadian-American and other Allied forces

to liberate Western Europe from the grip of Nazi occupation.

It would be the largest and most ambitious and phibious invasion in the history of warfare,

codenamed Operation Overlord.

May 1944 initially was the chosen month for the launch of the operation,

but difficulties in assembling the landing craft forced postponement until June.

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