RAIDS ON KISKA
POWERFUL & SUSTAINED AMERICAN ATTACKS. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 11,10 a.m.) RUGBY, October 27. Further air attacks on Kiska are reported in a United States Navy communique which says: “On Octobei’ 23 Army Liberator bombers, accompanied by Lockheed Lightning fighters, dropped eighteen tons of bombs on the camp area and submarine base at Kiska. On the following day Army Flying Fortresses raided Kiska, dropping bombs in the vicinity of the submarine base. During these raids the Japanese anti-aircraft shore batteries were active, but no enemy planes were seen.
A number of hits on the target areas were observed, but the extent of the damage is undetermined.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 October 1942, Page 4
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110RAIDS ON KISKA Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 October 1942, Page 4
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