BOMBED AT DECK LEVEL
ENEMY SHIPPING AT KISKA DESTROYERS DISGUISED AS CARGO VESSELS (Rec. 11.25 a.m.) New York, Oct. 19. 1 Twenty-six low flying marauder bombers carried out a deck-level at- - tack against enemy shipping at Kiska on Friday, says the correspondent of the United Press of America in Alaska, quoting the army announcement that the Marauders found the destroyers dis--1 guised as cargo ships. The attackers ' saw crates on the ship’s decks fly high ’ through smoke and flame and geysers of water. Japanese sailors were seen | going over the side and cling to wreckage of ships. They were the first Japanese naval craft sighted near Kiska for several days. Army officials believed that the crates on the decks contained fighter planes for the Kiska garrison
which apparently is without fighter protection. The army announcer indicated that there would be continued relentless attacks to drive the Japanese from the Aleutians.—P.A.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 77, 20 October 1942, Page 2
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