HEAVY ATTACK
MADE ON DUTCH HARBOUR ON JUNE 3 JAPANESE PLANES MET BY BARRAGE OF FIRE. STORIES OF EVACUEES. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, June 25. ■ Japanese planes subjected Dutch Harbour, Alaska, to heavy bombing and machine-gunning on June 3, say evacuees from Unalaska Island. The evacuees, who include soldiers, construction workers, women and children, arrived at Seattle aboard an army transport, which took part in the action and whose gun crews played a valiant role in the defence of Dutch Harbour. The Japanese attacking force was expected, and when about 20 planes came over they were met by a barrage of fire from transports and the shore. The evacuation transport became the chief target for the bombers as she moved from the shore with her guns blazing, but she escaped a direct hit and her gunners accounted for a bomber and two fighters. On shore, Japanese bombs blew up an old tank 500 feet into the air, blasted warehouses and barracks, and machine-gunned the streets. Women and children were sheltered in cellars and dugouts, and some had been taken to a sheltered valley.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 June 1942, Page 3
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