A special D-Day Mercury broadcast presented instead of the regular show, framed as a California aircraft worker writing to her unborn child about June 6 and 7, 1944. The program dramatizes the home front and an airborne soldier's flight into occupied France, then incorporates General Eisenhower's order of the day. It treats the invasion as the beginning of Europe's liberation and closes with the mother's hope that the child's father will return from the fighting.
This The Mercury Theatre on the Air broadcast aired on June 7, 1944. It is listed as episode 20 in the archive.
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