Word: kiska
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Months of existence in a literal hell of mud, ice and fog have taught U.S. fighting men much about the Aleutians. Many of their lessons have been bitter. But they had the satisfaction last week of knowing that the Japs they are fighting are faring even worse. Jap-held Kiska had been plastered by more than a million high explosive and incendiary bombs during April. Jap raids on American positions were infrequent, of little consequence...
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...
...bombings unsupported by naval and land attack, and they sharply reminded the U.S. that the Japs must be cleared out of the Aleutians. But the Japs will have many problems of weather and distance to solve before they can effectively bomb either Alaska or the U.S. proper from Kiska. A more immediate possibility is that they may try to use Kiska as a base for operations against the U.S. air base Dutch Harbor, which is 600 miles nearer the mainland...
WASHINGTON--Bomb-carrying American fighter planes showered 17 tons of explosives of Jap-held Kiska Sunday in nine more raids on the enemy's Aleutians stronghold, the Navy revealed today...
...Lightnings steadied for their runs they could see the great black rock that is Kiska. The Lightnings struck at the rock, and on top of the rock, as they flashed across, the pilots saw a swarm of men working-blasting, scraping, cracking stones. When the pilots pressed the buttons of their guns, and the tracers hurtled down and ricocheted off the rock, the men did not even hunt for cover on the coverless place; they just went on working...