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...first time Jap resistance cracked under Allied pressure: a garrison was evacuated before the final attack. The cold rocks of Kiska had been gavelled under 106 bombings and 15 shellings from the sea since the first of the month. When U.S. and Canadian troops landed on Aug. 15-expertly primed for perhaps the strongest single operation the U.S. had yet undertaken in the Pacific-they found no living creature except a lonesome dog. The timing must have been hairline: invading Allied troops found a container of hot coffee. Victory it was, but seldom has a victory been acknowledged with such...
...Canadian and American soldiers found no Japs, but they did get a good look at the installations our planes and naval guns had been shooting at. What they found: gun emplacements, ammunition, living quarters and other evidence which indicated that at one time nearly 10,000 Japs had been on Kiska. There was a submarine base (evidently abandoned weeks ago) and a long-neglected seaplane base and hangar. Telephone lines strung around the eastern side of the island led to a fair-sized power plant. Crude roads in some sections could accommodate the 50 or more trucks, some Fords, some...
While the Jap was looking the other way, an amphibious U.S. force steamed by moonlight around Jap-held Kolombangara, landed at dawn on Vella Lavella's south eastern shore. Captured were some 350 surprised Nips, an unheard-of number of prisoners in the South Pacific. Other Japs fled into the jungle...
...unexpected move bypassed Jap-held Bairoko Harbor, Vila airfield and lesser positions in such jungle islands as Gizo. Vella Lavella was important as bait. The Jap bit. He tried almost immediately to land reinforcements on Vella Lavella and came down in 20-to-30 troop-carrying barges escorted by four destroyers. U.S. warships struck. One Jap destroyer was probably sunk, another damaged and a third hit. Most of the barges were sunk. Although an estimated 300 Japs managed to get ashore, some 1,000 perished...
...other flank of the South Pacific front-in New Guinea-U.S. and Australian forces humped towards oft-bombed Salamaua. The Jap's outer defenses along the jungly ridges protecting the Salamaua airdrome suddenly cracked. "All at once," said dispatches, the Japs evacuated their positions and retreated pell-mell to last-ditch defenses around the Salamaua airdrome...