Hours after the historic landings had begun, a late edition of the Belfast Telegraph declared it was "Europe's greatest day". "In this brief manner the United Nations, their enemies, and the peoples of neutral nations, were told that 'The Day' had arrived," the Belfast Telegraph reported. The day after D-Day, 7 June, more information was being relayed to anxious families in towns and villages across Ireland. Such memories of bombing raids would have remained raw in Northern Ireland after the Blitz. A reminder of this can be seen in the top masthead of the Belfast Telegraph which informed readers of the black-out times to abide by.
