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...break that weather-bound U.S. pilots in the Aleutians had been praying for-some action-came last week. Up from steel-mat runways as far westward as the Andreanof Island group rose Liberator heavy bombers, Mitchell mediums and Lightning fighters, joyfully heading toward Kiska. On the first day they attacked Kiska submarine installations and camp buildings four times. The second day Kiska was raided six times. On the third day, twice more...
...Alaska, to Lieut. Colonel John Stephen Chennault, 29-year-old son of Brigadier General Claire: the D.F.C. for attacking a Jap encampment at Kiska, machine-gunning and probably sinking an enemy submarine...
...week, spotted a Japanese freighter where no Jap freighter ought to be. Said the Navy's laconic communiqué: "The ship was left burning and was later seen to sink." The Navy offered no conjecture as to what the ship was doing 110 miles north and east of Kiska, in the Bering...
Logical supply route to Kiska from Japan is to the south and west (where a Consolidated Liberator bomber sighted and bombed another cargo ship on the same day). Possible explanation for the B-25's victim being where she was: she was trying to slip into Kiska from the north, in the fog-shrouded Bering Sea where U.S. planes would be less likely to see her. But other Jap cargo ships were luckier. At least two in the past fortnight have landed supplies for the Jap force which still clings to the tail of the Aleutians. On their next...
From a powerful radio on Kiska Island came a Jap voice warning U.S. troops on the nearby Andreanof Islands that they were doomed unless they got out in 24 hours. "You all die, you all die!" screeched the radio. From an airdrome in the Andreanofs U.S. planes took to the air, flew to Kiska. The Jap voice still chattered. A plane peeled off, went into a power dive, machine guns and cannon spitting. The voice ceased...