BATTLE OF ALEUTIANS

Evening Post, Volume CXXXIII, Issue 138, 13 June 1942, Page 6

BATTLE OF ALEUTIANS

STILL IN/PRpGRESS

JAPS MAKE A LANDING

LONDON, June-12. Small-scale Japanese landings on the Aleutian Islands have been ; announced in a United States Navy Department communique. The communique says that information has been received by the Navy Department to the effect that the Japanese have made landings on a small scale on Attu, at the extreme tip of the Alaska Archipelago, and that Japanese ships have been reported in the harbour of Kiska, in the Rat group. Japanese operations in the Aleutian area are still in progress, though continuing attacks by U.S. army and navy aircraft have forced them to retire from the populated regions of the islands. The army and navy attacks a-e still maintained. Weather conditions on these outlying islands precluded air search operations until within the last 24 hours. - Attu is about 800 miles west of Dutch Harbour and almost on the international date line. Kiska, on Rat Island, is about 240 miles east of Attu.

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