
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: WEDNESDAY, September 21, 1994                   TAG: 9411030028
SECTION: EXTRA                    PAGE: 8   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: GREG EDWARDS
DATELINE:                                 LENGTH: Medium

CANADIAN SOLDIERS HONORED FOR SAVING A SECRET

IN RECOGNITION of the sacrifices of the region's veterans 50 years ago during World War II, we take the following look at a selection of headlines from the Pacific, Europe and the home front for the week of Sunday, Sept. 17, through Saturday, Sept. 23, 1944:

Two Canadian soldiers were decorated by the British government after they discovered misplaced plans for the D-Day invasion in a Quebec hotel. The discovery was made following a planning conference by President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Prime Minister Winston Churchill.

Marine veterans of Guadalcanal had captured the 4,200-foot Peleliu airdrome against stubborn Japanese resistance, beating back several counter-attacks.

American troops began fanning out over Germany from at least five gaping breaches in the Siegfried line and smashed to within 25 miles of Cologne, sending German armies in retreat to the east bank of the Rhine.

"The Kate Smith Hour'' was moving to a new day and time on the CBS Network and WDBJ radio: Sunday from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m.

Thousands of troops of the Allied First airborne army carried by a sky train of more than 1,000 planes landed behind German lines in Holland, quickly capturing several towns and reportedly taking a bridgehead across the Rhine.

Battering their way through some of the strongest resistance yet offered in the Italian campaign, 5th Army forces held three important heights on the road to Bologna. On the eastern end of the Gothic line, 8th Army troops crossed the borders of the tiny neutral republic of San Marino.

The French port of Brest was captured from the Germans after a 46-day seige and constant pounding by air forces.

U.S. Army troops had crushed all Japanese opposition on Angaur Island in the Palau group. To the north, U.S. Marines had killed 7,645 Japanese, an estimated three-fourths of the entire garrison on Peleliu Island.

British 2nd Army troops fought desperately to crosse the Rhine river at Nijmegen, Holland, in a race to rescue a huge pocket of Allied Airborne forces under attack in the Arnhem area.

Carrying the war back to Manila for the first time since the fall of Corregidor, carrier planes from the 3rd Fleet sank as many as 37 Japanese ships and shot down 205 enemy aircraft, losing only 15 planes in the process.

by CNB