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Like a giant causeway over the wastes of the North Pacific, the Aleutians stretch about 1,000 miles from the Alaskan mainland (see map). On to windswept, fog-washed Attu at their western tip, American troops swarmed last week...
...attacking Attu, the Army & Navy simply cut around the Jap forces on strongly held Kiska, presumably proposed to deal with them later or to starve them out. Although the Japs apparently had a relatively small force on Attu, they had a strong position. Only 35 miles long and 20 miles wide, Attu is fiercely rugged. Its swampy beaches offer no natural cover, few places for landings. The Japs would have to be blasted from every rock and shelter...
These reports told of the Japs successfully digging in on fogbound, rocky Kiska and Attu islands, withstanding 31 U.S. bombings in three days, and even using rock crumbled by the bombs to forward the construction of bomber and fighter runways on Kiska...
...opposing warcraft dueled at long range west of Attu Island, westernmost of the Aleutians and itself some 210 miles west of the Jap base at Kiska--which has been under steady American aerial pounding during the past month...
WASHINGTON--American forces on Guadalcanal are pushing a two-front offensive east and west of Henderson Airfield, the Navy said today in a communique which also disclosed the Japs have returned to Attu Island in the Aluetiana...