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This account is now closed. It tweeted events leading up to D-Day 1944 as they were reported on BBC Radio. Scripts, photos, news bulletins, quotes and links.

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<< And thanks especially to those BBC War Correspondents, presenters, journalists and engineers who pioneered war reporting 70 years ago.

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Benedict Cumberbatch reads the D-Day 6 June 1944 midnight news: http://t.co/PeDMavd30G (plus script via @BritishLibrary) #DDay70

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"...Mr. Churchill reported that in some places we'd driven several miles into France." #DDay70

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"...and it will be given as soon as possible. Earlier this evening in a statement to the Commons..." #DDay70

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"Tonight's communiqué from Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force is likely to be available before the end of the news..." #DDay70

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"Tuesday, 6th June, 1944, Midnight.
Here is the news read by Frank Phillips..." #DDay70

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Next: "Songs from the Shows" followed by Albert Schweitzer playing Bach

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Next the delayed programme: "Tuesday at 9.40" #DDay70

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Next: a Service conducted by the Archbishop of Canterbury

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You can read the script of War Report Number One on the @BBCRadio4 website: http://t.co/JMU6EvNpfF (via @BritishLibrary) #DDay70

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On 6 June 1944 the 9pm bulletin was followed by War Report Number One. By the end of the war there had been 235 editions. #DDay70

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You can hear actor Toby Jones reading the 9pm 6 June 1944 bulletin on the @BBCRadio4 site: http://t.co/uQp916Tfr1 #DDay70

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You can read the script of the 9pm 6 June 1944 bulletin on the @BBCRadio4 website: http://t.co/ynVbIMUAdE

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"Our great airborne landings – the biggest in history – have been carried out with very little loss." #DDay70

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"Six-hundred-and-forty guns of the Allied Navies bombarded the German coast defences in support of our troops."
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"Fighting is going on in the town of Caen between the Cherbourg Peninsula and Havre." #DDay70