AP Announces Allied Landings in Normandy

This was the first word to the rest of the world as to what had happened on June 6, 1944.

Wes Gallagher, AP General manager in London.  Word arrived at 9:32 a.m. and was sent out a minute later.

SUPREME HEADQUARTERS ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY FORCE (AP)

Allied troops landed on the Normandy coast in France in tremendous strength by cloudy daylight today and stormed several miles inland with tanks and infantry in the grand assault  which General Dwight D. Eisenhower called a crusade in which 'we will accept nothing less than full victory.' "