Charles Collingwood

One of the mines came up along our starboard side and the craft which beached immediately on our port side hits the next one.

Charles Collingwood, a CBS radio correspondent, is on a Normandy beach late in the afternoon and records his impressions.

This is Charles Collingwood.

We are on the beach today, on D-Day.

We've just come in.

Speaking to you from CBS Television election headquarters here in New York City.

Let's turn to that miracle of the modern age, the electronic brain Univac and Charles Collingwood.

This

is not a joke or a trick.