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Measuring a standard globe, plus checking with tables of airline distances, shows that -even allowing for a Kiska stopover-the Japs would find Minneapolis at least 300 miles farther from Tokyo than is San Diego. And, similarly measured on great circles, Chicago is at least 1,000 statute miles closer to Punta Gallinas, Colombia, than to the nearest Siberian point...
...course in the cost of long communication lines: about 344 planes lost, 19 ships sunk, 21 damaged since Aug. 1. The Japanese could put a few hundred men on an island. Supplying and reinforcing them was another matter. Wake Island is farther from Tokyo than it is from Honolulu; Kiska is about 1,000 miles from any known Jap supply base. And the list of Japanese surprise possibilities was fast running out. This was no time for optimism, but it was good to know that Japan had troubles...
...Japanese, who had some idea three months ago of chewing up the Aleutians, last week faced the prospect of having to let go their hold on Kiska, Attu and Agattu...
...Aleutian fog bank. U.S. forces, said the Navy, had been entrenched on one of the Andreanof Islands since Sept. i. Which island was not disclosed, but any one of the Andreanofs (which are part of the Aleutians) is well within fighter range of the main Japanese base at Kiska...
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...