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...Shanghai. Northeast of the Philippines the Volcano Islands, halfway between the southern Marianas and Tokyo, were raided by Major General Willis Hale's Liberators from new bases on Saipan. Hale's Seventh Air Force heavies also smashed at the Bonins, still closer to Tokyo. From the north Aleutian-based bombers attacked the Kurils...
...There the Army camps are overrun with dogs -mongrels and curs of all descriptions -called "Bombproof" and "Propwash," dogs raised by the soldiers and pampered beyond the dreams of any U.S. pet. In Alaska, too, there was an echo of Prohibition. Bored G.I.s invented a new drink, dubbed it "Aleutian Solution." Contents: one part "torpedo juice" or medical alcohol, two parts grapefruit juice. CJ A Californian in the farthest South...
...Some 5,000 miles north of Truk, Aleutian-based Navy Ventura bombers attacked several points in the Kurile Islands. One Liberator went all the way to Shimushiri Island, only 400 miles north of Japan proper. Radio Tokyo announced this week that a U.S. carrier force had bombed Marcus Island, 1,200 miles south of Tokyo, for two days...
...Pacific, U.S. air power thundered through the islands. Land-based Liberators bombed Truk for the first time. Long-range, Aleutian-based Army and Navy planes pecked at the Kuriles. One lone Army Liberator swung past Paramushiro all the way to Matsuwa, 1,100 miles north of Tokyo...
...Alaska. He got an offer. U.S. Army records later disclosed that his right name was Harvilick, his home address was actually Springboro, Pa., there was no record of overseas service or citations. And there were, of course, no live Japs on Kiska when the U.S. took over the Aleutian island last August...