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Army bombers, escorted by Lockheed P-38 fighters, dropped out of the Aleutian fogs and plastered Kiska harbor. Four Jap Zero fighters were shot down. An estimated 500 Japanese soldiers were killed or wounded. The announcement that the long-range P-38s had been used foreshadowed a new technique in aerial bombardment.* The raids on Kiska also foreshadowed the day when U.S air power, flowing north over the new Canadian inland air route, may blast the Japs out of Kiska-and move on toward Tokyo...
North all the watery miles to Alaska the Navy made a sudden smashing raid on the Jap-held Aleutian island of Kiska...
Last week The Razor spoke more sharply. To the League for Support of the Throne, Tojo reported that Aleutian occupations had "greatly strengthened Japan's position." "Japan," he said, "is determined to destroy the United States and Britain...
...enemy has occupied the undefended islands of Attu, Kiska and Agattu in the westernmost tip of the Aleutian chain and has constructed temporary living facilities ashore...
...much equipment at West Coast ports were being nastily diverted northward, how much reinforcement had been received from the battle-trained Royal Canadian Air Force, what preparations were afoot to dislodge the Japs. Plain to see was that, although Japan had paid a heavy price for its Aleutian foothold, if the U.S. intended to kick the Jap out, the U.S., too, would...