Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: WEDNESDAY, July 27, 1994 TAG: 9408180015
SECTION: EXTRA PAGE: 12 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: Greg Edwards
DATELINE: LENGTH: Medium
In the wake of an assassination attempt against him by some of his officers, Adolf Hitler begged the German army to fight on to victory and began placing the armed forces on the war fronts under the iron hand of Nazi party fanatics.
Japan's new war cabinet met for the first time under Premier Gen. Kuniski Koiso and pledged a fight to the finish against the Allied forces. Former Premier Gen. Hideki Tojo, who launched the sneak attack on Pearl Harbor, had been put on the official ``retired'' list.
Three Allied columns marched on Florence, Italy, with one unit less than 14 miles away. On the west, Allied patrols were within four miles of historic Pisa and its famous leaning tower.
Southern Democratic leaders appeared willing to forget for the time being talk about forming a third party and found comfort in the defeat of Vice President Henry Wallace for the Democratic vice presidential nomination. Sen. James O. Eastland of Mississippi, who had fought unsuccessfully for a white supremacy plank in the party platform, said he would support the party's nominees, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman.
U.S. Marines stormed the beaches of Tinian Island, two and one half miles from Saipan, against light ground opposition. The landings were the third in the Marianas group of islands within six weeks.
Arne Anderson lowered the world record for the mile to 4:01.6 in beating Gunder Haegg at Molmoe, Sweden.
Canadian and British troops astride the Falaise road resumed the attack on the eastern flank of the German army in Normandy following a three-day lull.
Plans were announced to open a German prisoner of war camp at Salem on Aug. 1. Another had been opened in Catawba in late June. The prisoners were to help with the fruit harvest and pulpwood cutting.
American tanks with infantry clinging to their turrets smashed five miles through the main and secondary German lines west of St. Lo in the greatest Allied drive of the French invasion. Fanning out into open country, they trapped huge pockets of German soldiers in their wake.
Lt. Gen. Lesley McNair, described by many as the brains of the American army, was reported killed by enemy fire while observing action of U.S. front line units in France.
Because of its support of the Axis, the Argentine government had forfeited its right to sit down with the United Nations in important war and postwar conferences.
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