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North all the watery miles to Alaska the Navy made a sudden smashing raid on the Jap-held Aleutian island of Kiska...
...haven't enough power to drive them out now, how can we expect to do it when they get fully established?" An old Alaska hand, who has prospected for gold and practiced law, Delegafe Dimond declared that there are 25,000 Jap fighters in the Aleutians.* By taking Kiska the Japs are nearer the U.S. Pacific coast-and the Panama Canal-than if they had won Midway. "The Japs knew the size of their own forces, so why wasn't the U.S. public informed of the invading force's size?" asked Tony Dimond...
Twenty-five Thousand Alone. Since the Navy reported last month that three more Jap destroyers had been sunk, the only news of the Aleutians has come from the Tokyo radio. A Japanese correspondent on Kiska reported that U.S. bombers were visiting the island two or three times a day, dropping their loads through the fog; that roads were being built across the black, treeless hills; that Japanese troops were unhappy over the prospect of a winter on bleak Kiska. "The loneliness in this remote northern base is hard to imagine back home," complained the writer...
...enemy has occupied the undefended islands of Attu, Kiska and Agattu in the westernmost tip of the Aleutian chain and has constructed temporary living facilities ashore...
...Minus. The principal loss to the U.S. was some 600 miles west of the scene of battle: the three islands of Attu, Kiska and Agattu, seized by the Japs. The presence of troop transports since then indicate that the Japanese have been digging in on those craggy isles astride one main sea route between the U.S. and U.S.S.R. Kiska alone gave Japan a harbor, a potential submarine base, enough flat terrain for an air base within bomber range of Dutch Harbor and other Alaskan bases...