DEFENCE OF ALASKA.
Received Sundav, 7 p.m. NEW YORK, August 17. Members of the House Military Cominittee, after a four day tour of Alaska, expressed the opinion that the vast Ala:»kan territory must quickly and adequately ,be arnied to repel possible invaders. -s • . Th efaijt in gt.ch!aii£ii li.- ^h^l^heridan/deciared: f'ThWeiihtfstfhhv^^e a Pearl Harbour atiack ffom -th'e ■north. w Members of tfte connnittee approVed army plans to base in Alaska a 21,000 man airborne division — double the number of rnen now in the territory.
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Chronicle (Levin), 19 August 1946, Page 8
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