BLASTED AT KISKA
JAPANESE DESTROYERS
ACTING AS CARGO SHIPS
SUPPOSED DESTRUCTION OF
CRATED PLANES,
(By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright) (Received This Day, 11.25 a.m.) NEW YORK, October 19. Twenty-six low-flying Marauder bombers carried out a deck-level attack against enemy shipping at Kiska on Friday, says a United Press correspondent in Alaska, quoting an Army announcement. The Marauders found destroyers disguised as cargo ships. The attackers saw crates on the ships’ decks fly high through smoke, flame arid geysers of water. Japanese sailors were seen going over the side and clinging to wreckage. The ships were the first Japaanese naval craft sighted near Kiska for several days. Army officials believe that the crates on the decks contained fighter planes for the Kiska garrison, which apparently is without fighter protection. An Army announcer indicated that there would be continued relentless attacks to drive the Japanese from the Aleutians.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 October 1942, Page 4
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