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What were the Japs doing in their newly won footholds in the western Aleutians, the bleak little islands of Attu and Kiska? If the U.S. Army & Navy knew, they did not say. So the only news was from the Tokyo radio, and that was positively insulting. The Jap broadcasts said that Attu and Kiska had been renamed Atsuta and Narukam; that vegetable seeds and potatoes had been shipped in and that "this alone reveals that our action was not meant to be merely temporary"; that Japanese Navy headquarters had sent congratulations to the unnamed "supreme commander of ground forces...
...some official quarters in Washington attempts were made to shrug off the obscure Jap moves in the Aleutians as feints or minor encroachments. But the U.S. had reason to worry. Kiska has not only a good harbor but some flat land for airfields. The busy little Japs were under cover of Aleutian fog, and probably building air and submarine bases, emplacing anti-aircraft guns, sneaking in shells, bombs and torpedoes. Apparently anticipating a Japanese move east to Atka Island and northeast to the Pribilof Islands, the Army announced the evacuation of 550 natives to southeastern Alaska...
JAPS TAKE KISKA...
...huge task force had to turn tail. The thesis was strengthened last week when land-based U.S. Consolidated bombers from Northern Africa hammered the Italian Fleet (see p. 22). And the Army in Alaska is even using land-based torpedo planes to blast the Japs out of Attu and Kiska harbor...
...front the U.S. must show its capacity to drive the invaders not only from the Attu and Kiska Harbor in the Aleutians, from Wake, from Guam, from the Philippines, but to conquer them in their own islands. To do so, U.S. armadas, in the air and on the sea, must move west, reversing the present tactical advantages. The U.S. must take the risks which Japan has so far taken, must successfully drive across the Pacific 2,575 miles from Midway to Tokyo...