NEWS DIRECT FROM THE BATTLEFRONT: Mr. Frank Gillard, of the 8.8.C., broadcasts the first message from the actual Normandy beachhead. This message, heard in a 9 o'clock news bulletin, was claimed to be the first direct 8.8.C. transmission of any campaign. In the centre is Mr. William Downs, a C.B.S. reporter,
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New Zealand Herald, Volume 81, Issue 24969, 11 August 1944, Page 2
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51NEWS DIRECT FROM THE BATTLEFRONT: Mr. Frank Gillard, of the 8.8.C., broadcasts the first message from the actual Normandy beachhead. This message, heard in a 9 o'clock news bulletin, was claimed to be the first direct 8.8.C. transmission of any campaign. In the centre is Mr. William Downs, a C.B.S. reporter, New Zealand Herald, Volume 81, Issue 24969, 11 August 1944, Page 2
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