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Thus the Navy, in a profit-&-loss communiqué last week, summed the Jap's accomplishments in six weeks of Alaskan warfare. To the U.S. it was some reassurance that things had not gone worse on a front from which news had come chiefly in complaints about the weather that sounded suspiciously like alibis. But still unanswered, even by implication, were such questions as: 1) Can the Japs be dislodged soon? 2) Is Alaska strong enough to withstand an invasion...
...Navy saw the first Alaskan attack (June 3), in perspective, as the lesser prong of a double assault on the western rim of U.S. outposts. The greater prong was blunted against the air and sea defense of Midway...
Great things hinged on getting the Japs out: How could the Russians give the U.S. bases in Russia whence to attack the Jap until the Alaskan approaches were clear? Soon the Jap might strike at Russia. At that moment the U.S would desperately need clear sailing between Dutch Harbor and Kamchatka...
This was a big concession by the incredibly tough Alaskan censorship. Under the rules concocted by the Alaska Defense Command, no news of their front-yard Battle of the Aleutians was printed for Alaskans until 48 hours after it appeared in the States. When Vice President Wallace had spoken of the imminent danger of an attack on Alaska, Army Signal Corps censors at Seattle refused to let the Alaskan press report...
...peek inside Alaska. As one correspondent in Alaska puts it: "You people back in the 'old country' just plumb don't know the meaning of the word censorship." The Office of Censorship has even made a "special request" that the press services submit all stories about Alaskan military operations or installations for censorship before publication...