On D-plus-one, an unusual radio audience listened to an unusual program. The audience consisted of lightly wounded Allied soldiers gathered at collecting stations on the Normandy beaches. The program: Allied Expeditionary Forces Program.
A joint British-American venture, the program is still on the air, 17 hours a day. One great service of A.E.F. Program was recently described by Major Arthur Goodfriend, chief of ETO's Orientation Branch. Wrote he:
"Probably the low point of the Normandy campaign in its initial stages occurred during four days of storm, which seriously interfered with unloading operations on...
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