There are also newspapers from 6th but I didnt found any mention of invasion yetā¦
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We in Norway have Trygve Hansen that where in the beatch while he was 17 year old. Trygve Hansen var 17 Ƅr, fotballstjerne og hvalfanger. Men det han sƄ pƄ strendene i Normandie, endret alt. (aftenposten.no)
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Here are some newspaper from Montreal, Quebec, Canada (Newspapers are in french):
June 6th: https://www.ledevoir.com/documents/pdf/2019-1944-06-06-Devoir.pdf
June 7th: https://www.ledevoir.com/documents/pdf/2019-1944-06-07-Devoir.pdf
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Hey I was able to find the front page of 7 June 1944 from the Italian newspaper La Stampa:
I found it at: La Stampa - Consultazione Archivio
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The Regina Rifles landed in Juno Beach. They have a great site. The reason I am interested in them is because in 2005 on a cold November day I met a First Nations film crew for āIndigenous Circleā who were filming on the beach. Also First Nations people fought for our freed although they were not allowed to vote (fact check me I only heard this). Well here is a site about them with war diairies personnel roster with whether they landed on D-Day and if they were killed or wounded. etc.:
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You can thank that paper for this: 
Since noone has contributed anything german yet, i might as well. Hereās a surprisingly high resolution stock photo of the front page of the german newspaper Der Mittag (which roughly translates to āthe middayā) reporting on the events that unfolded the previous day.
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Reaction to D-Day in Ireland (Irish Times 7th June 1944), there was heavy censorship even as Ireland was nuetral
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Hereās the Vƶlkischer Beobachter, dated June 7, 1944:
https://anno.onb.ac.at/cgi-content/anno?aid=vob&datum=19440607&seite=1&zoom=33
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This Seattle Times article looks at the response to D Day in Seattle. It includes pictures of the pages of the paper that week.
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This is Page 1 of the Brooklyn Eagle, June 6:
P.S. I will be transcribing these articles soon 
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Brazilian newspaper published on june 7th about the invasion.
Source: 72 anos da InvasĆ£o da Normandia | Acervo O POVO Online
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The Belgium Museum KBR (The Royal Library), have put online a lot of newspaper archive numerised. There is a list of the available Archives for the 06/06/1944 (There are newspaper from the 3 main languages of the country, Dutch, French and German). Hope this help!
(You probably need an account to be able to consult them, but itās free).
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Really enthused for this. Must say that @NormanStewart beat me to the punch (slightly), but Iāll enhance: The Internet Archive does include the broadcast days for D-Day for the USās National Broadcasting Company (NBC) and the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) with varying quality and detail. Youāll find commonality in both where common broadcast elements (e.g., messages from world leaders, SHAEF headquarters, embedded broadcasters) take place. They can be found at Complete Broadcast D-Day NBC : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive and Complete Broadcast Day D-Day : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive, respectively.
For me, listening to these broadcasts as I fall asleep, at roughly the time they wouldāve been originally broadcast on D-Day, is an annual event. Much of the fog of war, the uncertainty, and general speculation weāve grown used to in the modern broadcast era is present here.
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Hi Spartacus,
The French newspapers of the time are mostly available on Recherche | RetroNews - Le site de presse de la BnF (France National Library). It is quite heterogeneous with newspapers from the occupied zone, the Vichy regime, the underground, national or regional. Below a vichyst cover :
Lately Iāve been interested in the fighting in the Maquis of Saint-Marcel (Morbihan, Brittany) which took place as a diversion/support to Operation Overlord. Itās not easy to find sources on it, even in French. I have nevertheless some elements on the SAS operations in Brittany during D-Day:
- a complete article on the fighting in Brittany , day by day :https://www.jstor.org/stable/25729912
- The portrait of Emile Bouetard the first French soldier killed on D-Day and parachuted in Brittany:
www.france24[DOT]com/fr/20140604-d-day-jour-j-emile-bouetard-premier-soldat-francais-tue-bretagne-debarquement-parachutiste
www.20minutes[DOT]fr/societe/1394389-20140605-20140605-emile-bouetard-premiere-victime-debarquement-mort-bretagne - It might be worth contacting the MusƩe du Maquis de Saint Marcel (www.musee-resistance-bretagne[DOT]com), the last time I went there they had quite a few artefacts and testimonies related to D-Day in Brittany (I remember a wedding dress made from the parachute cloth of an SAS who took part in the operation)
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I can contribute the personal stories of my maternal grandfather, Pierre Montigny, who lived under the occupation of Belgium in the province of Hainault. The Germans, he told me, used to do sweeps of houses where people were gathering too frequently and in too great numbers to seize any radios, intensifying their efforts in the weeks preceding D-Day. Though, even if one was caught, someone else usually either built or āfoundā another radio set quickly enough. His family, as I understood it from those comments about it, was probably one of those who kept a well-hidden radio set to keep listening to the BBC.
He told me that in the days before the invasion, he heard the first lines of the poem announcing it from the BBC.
And, to his dying days, he always remembered the time he heard it in full, in the late hours of June 5th. āLes sanglots longs des violons de lāautomne blessent mon coeur dāune langueure monotone.ā He said that they then knew that liberation was coming.
It is odd, you know. He never spoke much of the War, nor made a big deal of what he and his family went through (they had evacuated in 1940, only to come back to Belgium after the armistice/end of the battle of France. We lost a great aunt to a Stuka attack on a refugee column).
But revisiting those recollections, I am coming to realize they must have been, perhaps only peripherally, part of the Belgian resistance (or in contact with them), like my maternal grandmother Marthe Manet (she carried munitions and messages in her school bag as a courier for the resistance, though to what extent and frequency, I can never know now). Otherwise, how would they have known about the significance of the message at the time? Certainly, the mood in Belgium was pretty anti-Nazi at the time in their social circles.
Theyāre both gone, now. So those recollections of the few times he ever mentioned the War are all I have in terms of direct, primary sources of what the people under the Occupation knew at the time. But it allows me, here, to immortalize them a little.
To add, my grandfatherās father was a notary, so they were fairly well-off. My grandmother, thoughā¦ Her family was old-school socialists (so much so that she had to get baptized to marry my grandfather). My grandfather was born in 1926, so he was still a minor during the War. Same for my grandmother.
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Hi, thought Iād share a copy of a letter my grandfather wrote to his parents on June 6, 1944. He was stationed at Naval Air Station Norfolk Virginia during the war and from what I can tell in his letters he was itching to head overseas. Iām sure his sentiment was felt by thousands serving stateside.
āJune 6, 1944. Dear Mother and Dad, Well we certainly had a big time down here when the invasion was announced. Sirens whaled and horns blew and there sure was quite a racket. Iāve got the radio going now listening to all the war news. I sure wish that I was in the invasion but I suppose mine will come sometimeā
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I do not know if this is pertinent, but wished to share it for posterity.
My grandfather, Sgt. Jack Craig, was in the Royal Artillery during and after Normandy.
He recounted this anecdote about his experiences fifty years ago.
His unit consisted of five people, a jeep, a few motorcycles and a lorry. They were mathematicians.
They would go forward from the front lines and āspotā Axis artillery.
They would drive metal poles into the ground two kilometers apart (he told me kilometers, not miles) in a straight line with wires attached, leading to a point one kilometer in front of the row of poles.
One of them would sit at the forward point and when they heard a gun fire, they would press a button activating the wires attached to the poles behind him.
The inline poles would register the shock wave of the firing gun through the ground.
The shock wave would reach the poles at different times dependent on the angle to the gun to the line.
Mathematicians in the lorry would then calculate by triangulation the angle of the gunās location from the difference in time it took for the shock wave to arrive at the poles.
They would then use maps to locate the gunās coordinates and relay these to the naval gun batteries, who could fire shells tens of miles inshore.
It was their task to then move forward and confirm if the strike had been successful.
I remember him telling me that on one occasion when they went to forward, they discovered they had ordered a strike on a small French village, obliterating it.
The Germans had set up their gun in the middle of the village.
He said that the maps they were using did not have this village on them, and he believed this had been an intentional error on the maps - leaving villages off the map so they would still order in the strike, not knowing that there would be a high risk of civilian casualties.
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Hi
I live in upper Normandy, not far from the city of Le Havre, and close to a lot a small towns that saw some action before D-day as part as the Atlantic wall and around the date of the D-day landings (various small sabotage operation, german radar installations etc ā¦)
I put some links (they are in French but i could translate some if needed) that cover the topic.
Itās about āforgottenā actions, actions that didnāt get covered at the time but were still important for the conflict as a whole (for instance the project of installation of a powerfull radar station that was almost completed, or a huge military hospital carved inside of the Normandy cliffs 10 km from where i live).
I can arrange for personal recollections of how the D-day was reported at the time, (my grand mother was 12 years old when it happened), I can dig out news papers of this periods if itās helpfullā¦
I can also arrange for visits of bunkers (there are so many around where i live, my grand father even have his wine cellar in one of them), archive consultations and interviews.
I can also scout for potential filming location at strategic points i know about, such as beaches, rivers, towns, buildings, factories ā¦
As I am a new user i can only post 2 links, so i did a pastebin to put a bunch of them together : http://www.les-petites-dalles.org/Guerre_39-45.htmlhttps://www.ville-fecamp.fr - Pastebin.com
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https://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/Digitised/Article/syonantimes19440607-1.2.8
https://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/Digitised/Article/syonantimes19440607-1.2.9
Hi, Iām not sure this is of use, but these are some articles from the Syonan Times in Occupied Malaya and Singapore on the Normandy Invasion. Dated June 7th 1944.
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