JAPANESE HARRIED
IN THE ALEUTIAN ISLANDS BY AMERICAN FIGHTERS & BOMBERS. TARGETS STRAFED ON LAND & SEA. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 12.40 p.m.) NEW YORK, September 16. The Alaskan Army-Base announced that American fighter planes attacked shipping and troops at Kiska Island (in the Aleutians) following on an attack by bombers. The Associated Press ol America reports that the fighter planes machine-gunned a formation of Japanese troops, damaged a float-plane, caused havoc aboard a converted yacnt, believed to be a floating command post and silenced a machine-gun crew ashore. , , Three days earlier bombers scored damaging near misses on a group ol cargo vessels, strafed a troop column and set fire to a large warehouse. A later message reports anotnei heavy American air attack on Kiska. Eight Japanese ships were sunk or damaged and five enemy planes were shot down. Shore installations were repeatedly bombed and shelled.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 September 1942, Page 4
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